by CR (059)
All inhabitants of this planet are imperfect, some more, some less. Therefore, nobody is perfect. Some mistakes are involuntary. Others are the result of the improper exercise of free will.
To err is human. Nothing could be more true. However, once an honest person is advised and becomes convinced of his mistake, he should admit it and try not to repeat it.
Therefore, one of our struggles in life should be reducing our imperfections and increasing our qualities. To do this, our errors should be faced with calm and understanding, in order to be able to recognize them better and then counteract those imperfections.
Unfortunatelly, it is common practice to conceal one's mistakes, instead of avoiding them. This is very detrimental to spiritual growth.
Most people seldom use impartiality and justice in the innermost evaluation of their own actions. Even those who are too harsh in the judgement of other people's actions, for whom they always have words of criticism and reproach, do not escape the usual tendency. When their own faults are concerned, they find a full, lenient, absolvent justification.
In this way, mistakes end up incorporated to human habits. Man thus loses his self-respect and his sense of character and dignity becomes corrupted.
What everyone should do is to face up his mistakes and avoid new mistakes with the help of his will power.
References
[1] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984
[2] Compilation, paraphrasing, translation from original texts in Portuguese
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