REALIZING ONE’S OWN SHORTCOMINGS

Realizing One’s Own Shortcomings ~ 309 ~ religious work also. But in whatever field work is going on, people will only be able to work together if they are patient and tenderhearted in their outlook. They will have to bear with one another, putting ill-feeling behind them, not becoming alienated towards one another over petty issues. It is all very well to be an idealist, but if one eternally seeks the ideal in people, one is bound to be disappointed. The only way to be able to work with others, then, is to overlook the fact that they do not come up to one’s ideal standard, and even to extend moral support to those who seem the most deficient.