If we met ourselves

If we met ourselves one day on the street

We are very charitable towards our own shortcomings.

We make all kinds of allowances for our own faults, and are wonderfully patient with our own infirmities. We see our good things magnified — and our blemishes in a light which makes them seem almost virtues.

So true is this, that if we met ourselves some day on the street , the self which God sees, even the self which our neighbor sees — we probably would not recognize it as really ourselves!

Our own judgment of our life is not conclusive.

There is a large part of us, which we do not see at all.

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