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Tolerate Your Failings
Can you tolerate your own weaknesses, friends? Your own failings? If not, why not? That can be the biggest trial, but it leads to tolerance of others. It goes back to tending to the moat in your eye, not the splinter in your neighbours. Indeed, it does. If attending to yourself, you will have little…
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Accept Your Failings
Anyone familiar with Zen sand gardens? To use the Zen sand garden metaphor, the rocks could be said to represent those upsetting weaknesses in our personal character. They are rough, heavy and virtually immovable, and though the sand between is more spacious, even and peaceful, there is no escaping the imprint the rocks make in…