Nonviolence Daily
Nonviolence Daily is a thought-for-the-day from Gandhi with a short and inspiring commentary from Professor Michael Nagler from the Metta Center for Nonviolence.
Nonviolence Daily
Day 348
Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred.
-Gandhi, Young India, February 10, 1927
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This sounds so simple, even simplistic, for those of us with our PhD and so forth. But it is such a salutary reminder. So often during the day we have this feeling of superiority toward another person. Oh look, he or she has heard. And then we feel smug. And then what happens? We increase our egotism and we increase our separateness.
Nothing is worth that. So, the simple formula is – and I found that I can always find, once I understand what a person's “error” really is, where it springs from. I can always find that tendency in myself. And it's very helpful to do that.