Yesterday's ...
Bob Patrick
(Used with permission)
Latin Proverb of the Day Archive
Criminia qui cernunt aliorum non sua cernunt.
(Anonymous)
Those who so easily discern the crimes of others do not even see their own.
pron = KREE-mih-nah kwee KAIR-noont ah-lee-OH-room nohn SOO-ah KAIR-noont.
Comment: Jesus is said to have asked how a person might remove a
splinter from someone else's eye while he had a huge timber stuck in
his own.
I learned several years ago a practice called "the mirror". It works
like this. If I find myself reacting to someone else, that is a signal
that the mirror is at work. I have unwittingly found someone who is
showing me myself. If I will simply take time to observe "the mirror"
he/she will show me something about myself that I had been pretending
was not true.
It's that simple. And it's that difficult.
And then, discerning others' faults becomes a way of really seeing
something that I can do anything about.
Bob Patrick
(Used with permission)
Latin Proverb of the Day Archive
