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Yes, the weeds that you point out in another’s garden
are your own. Pay attention to your own garden. In this case, weeds refer to faults. If you did not have the very weeds you point out, you would
not notice them in other gardens as much as you do. You certainly would not notice them with a superior air. Finding fault is the antipathy of humility. Serenity is more
like humility. Appreciation is more like humility. The more appreciative you are, the more you come from a high place, and
this very high place bears the name of humbleness. There is no humiliation in humility. There is humiliation in finding fault.
Don’t do it anymore. The more obvious a fault is in another, the more you possess
it. Why harp on faults? I suggest that you get out from under them. The splinter is in your own eye. The beauty is here within you as well. Look for the beauty,
and renounce faults. Be done with them. Help Me to lift the world. You do not help the world by putting it down. Grow in the direction you want the world to grow in. The only thing you can do is to be an example to the world.
Be the example you would like to have before you. Wouldn’t it be nice and easy then if where you looked, you saw what
you yourself would like to be? Be it then now. Be the inspirer. This is God speaking to you in the way that life speaks to you.
Life teaches you. Without ego, you would listen. Emulate the highest. Complaining is not of the highest. No longer
complain. No longer complain even once about anything. Respond to what another says and not to your opinion of it.
Will you take this as your motto? From now on foreswear criticism. Foreswear complaint. Foreswear displeasure. Embrace upliftment.
Embrace. True, complaint is contagious. There is a vaccine. I would call
the vaccine upliftment. Uplift the world rather than carry it. Release yourself from your bonds. Whatever you thought yesterday, think a new way today. Whatever
you found fault with yesterday, let go of it today. Whatever you could have done better yesterday, do it today. Be a replenisher
of the Universe. Be a replenisher of appreciation. Appreciate everyone for their bravery. They are brave to come
before you. They run the risk of being snapped at, isn’t that so? Be grateful for everyone who dares to come before
you and risk your criticism, for you tend to think you know better, and so you comment on the weeds in another’s garden. Weed your own garden first, and then go help your neighbor.
How about saying nothing once in a while? Who told you that you have to speak out every thought in your head? Speak up when
you have something uplifting to say. Inspire or be quiet. Inspire, or bite your tongue. Express your Higher Self. Everything
else has been said and said more than once. Think of something new to say. Think of hearts. How thirsty they are. Give them a drink. Water the flowers in another’s garden. Share upliftment.
Share inspiration. Be careful where you walk in another’s garden. Weed your own garden, and then invite others to it. Be the beautiful
garden you would like others to be. Your business isn’t to improve others. Your business is to inspire yourself. Then
you will have many coming to your garden and asking you how you do it? “How do you make your garden grow?” they
will ask.
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