Daily Meditation: Sunday, November 15, 2009

Do you sincerely wish to help others to better themselves? …

11/15/2009

Do you sincerely wish to help others to better themselves? Avoid criticizing them or moralizing, and start by bettering yourself. Merely by your example you can show them they are making a mistake or behaving badly. Yes, by your example. Because, when you work on yourself, you are working on others: they notice qualities in you that are lacking in them, and that makes them progress, as they understand the advantages for them in doing as you do. Those who concern themselves with the weaknesses and vices of others become dull and disagreeable, as if the faults they talk about finally rub off on them; it’s awful, you feel sorry for them. So start by making changes for the better in yourself, and let other people be. Accept them as they are, be patient, work relentlessly, day and night, to show them just what can be achieved through sincere endeavour. If they don’t yet know, they won’t learn it from your words, but they will from your example.