A way to peace: to be honest with ourselves about who we really are; to peel back the layers until we really see ourselves and what we need to do—to be decent, to be just, to be generous. Leaving our petty grievances with others aside, we should always strive for sincerity about who we really are. Not the image that we want others to have of us, the idealized image that we present to attain their approval, but our real selves, our true mean-spiritedness, dishonesty, and weakness. How hard it is to be truthful with ourselves! But how necessary. To see the plank in our own eyes instead of the speck in others. A way to peace—and a journey to peace.
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