The fault, dear Brutus . . . .

 the last three months or so, I’ve been witness — as have you — to the most hateful, vicious, slanderous, deplorable, and vile finger-pointing and condemnatory verbal flame-throwing imaginable. It’s called a presidential campaign. And it rears its venomous head and cuts its wide swath of destructiveness to friendships, families, and neighbor-relations every four years.

But I think what is more tragic is that it never goes away — it only gets put on the back burner to simmer for another four years. The losing party takes ridiculous shots at the winner, all sorts of conspiracy theories get hatched to explain away the outcome, and the intelligence of those who voted for the winner is severely questioned.

I was thinking about all this while perusing one of my favorite books this morning — "Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom" — and decided to share with you some of the quotations I found under the category of "Faultfinding." Truly, something for you to think about.

Whoever is aware of his own failings will not find fault with the failings of other men. — James Ross

The girl who cannot dance says the band cannot play. — Yiddish proverb

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man knows another. — Thomas Brown

You have in yourself all the faults which you scorn in others. — Will Durant

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. — Bertrand Russell

The faultfinder will find faults even in Paradise. — Henry D. Thoreau

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. — Benjamin Disraeli

Worrying about the faults of others is an unnecessary addition to the worry we have over our own faults. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
                                                              — Johann von Goethe

And why do you behold the mote that is in your brother’s eye, and do not consider the beam that is in your own eye? — Jesus the Christ

Think about it.