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Sri Aurobindo

Sweet Mother,

Is it because we have defects in ourselves that we cannot tolerate them in others? What is the origin of the shock we feel?

Yes, in a general way it is the defects you have in yourselves which seem to you most shocking in others.

Later on, you come to understand that others are a mirror reflecting the image of what you are.

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