Too often what I dislike in others is more about what I am and less about what I dislike in them. Therefore, if I make the changes in myself I’m less likely to criticize the the faults in another.

If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.

We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.

Being everything that I am is the very thing I need to become so that I am fully equipped to explore everything that I am not. For if I stop at myself, the journey ended in the preparation.

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

Accepting that I know so little about myself is the beginning of understanding everything about life.

We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.

Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.