+1: #880 Jesus on Motes and Beams

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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize one. In our last plus one we talked about lint on the projector's lens and the fact that, as per Byron Katie, every perceived problem appearing out there is really nothing more than a misperception within our own thinking. As I imagined us all busting out a nice little cloth to clean up our own lens rather than trying to change things out there, I thought of another great spiritual teacher. He lived a couple thousand years ago in the land of Galilee. His name was Jesus. You know what he said? Well, in our note on the Jefferson Bible, we flip open to the Bible Matthew 7:3, where we find this eternally epic wisdom gem written in epically awesome ancient language. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the mote out of thine eye, and behold, a beam is in thine own eye. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Yep, that's precisely it. And that's today's plus one. See any mote in thy brothers or sisters or spouses or childs or colleagues? I will settle down, look in the mirror, work on the beam in your own eye. And by the way, for curious souls, a mote is a tiny piece of substance, like sawdust. Tiny little thing. A beam. Well, that's much bigger. Focus on that big thing in your own eye.

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