Different/Same

“We differ in what we do or don’t do … not in what we are.”  Anthony DeMello

It is particularly easy now (though in fact it is easy any time) to be sanctimonious, to elevate myself by comparing myself to others, to raise my opinion of myself (or at least feel that I am) by lowering my opinion of others.  This quote reminds me that I am more like others, they are more like me, than I am comfortable with – and that it is time to get over that.  We are all humans who differ not in what we are, but in what we do, or don’t do.

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