The Worst Enemies
The worst enemies are, usually, remarkably similar characters save for some single point of difference. Why? Because we find nothing more unendurable than our own vices in another. Why? Because in the other they are so clear as we have a heightened sensitivity to them, while in ourselves they are nearly always invisible.
Before We Condemn
Before we condemn, we should always ask ourselves, “do I disapprove because this thing is wrong or because I am not wise enough to see it is right?”
Lighten Our Loads
We find it easier to endure guilt than to change our ways. Though we deny it with our words, our actions confirm that we would prefer to have to live with what we’ve done wrong than to set those wrongs right. It is far easier to know we have ruined another life than to say, [...]
Sense Of Humor?
How much of human suffering stems from taking as accusal what is in truth merely playful banter? How much stems from the inability to see what is said as jest rather than joust?