Wool & Words

I'm currently reading Jean Vanier's Community and Growth and came across this passage:

We have to try to hold our tongue, which can so quickly sow discord, which likes to spread the faults and mistakes of others, which rejoices when it can prove someone wrong. The tonge is one of the smallest parts of our body, but it can sow death. We are quick to magnify the faults of others, just to hide our own. It is so often 'they' who are wrong. When we accept our own flaws, it is easier to accept those of others.

Sigh. I am so very guilty of this tongue-death-sowing business. It's hard to see yourself.

So far, a rough-on-the-reader, but good, read.