he may appear. That is why we can feel nothing but pity for the sarcastic man. We know we are looking at a man who is attempting to hide his own hurt.

Naturally, we want to get over this feeling hurt, this fear of what other people think about us. How comforting it is to know that we do not have to heal ourselves of what the other man thinks about us or about anyone. We need only to heal ourselves of what we think. Let's begin by trying to love all people. It can be done. As we come to understand that a man's shortcomings are merely his diseases, just as the Measles and Mumps, just some place that his thinking became warped, we can no more censure him than we would condemn ourselves for holding a distorted viewpoint. And if ever we become so perfect that we do not have any diseases, then we shall never see them in anyone else, and in this conscious unity with our good, people will be healed by the very atmosphere of our presence.

As individuals, working out our freedom, we want to get away from argument; away from hurts, away from trying to force our opinions on people, away from pretending, away from the feeling that we have to suffer other people's criticism.