Look Not at Others' Faults but Your Own Undone
Look not at others' faults, nor at what others have done or left undone; look only at what you yourself have done and left undone.
Today, was my gaze on others' faults, or on my own unfinished work?
📝Reflection
Judging others is strangely sweet. Tallying what they did wrong, what they left undone, I come to feel like a fairly decent person. But for all that time, my own life moves not a step. This verse asks us to turn the gaze — from grading others' incompleteness to examining our own. The phrase "what I have left undone" lodges in the mind. We regret the things we did wrong, but what truly clouds a life is the things we left undone, put off. Withdraw the eye that watches others and turn it inward, and at last the work to be done comes into view.
🌱Apply It Today
When the urge to judge someone arises today, redirect that energy: recall "one thing I've been putting off" and begin it now.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
