What is your understanding of this quote: "Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors"?
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Doggie S
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clean up your own life before worrying about your neighbors and what they are doing and trying to change them
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Look at ur own self before raising fingers on other people.
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Clean up the dirt in your own life before concerning yourself with others' dirt. I hate 'judgment' and wish more people subscribed to this philosophy.
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"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
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The question reminded me of two quotes from Mother Teresa of Calcutta in reference to judging other people: "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." "There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house."
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In Spanish we have a saying "No mires la paja en el ojo ajeno, si no ves la viga en el tuyo", it makes reference to the fact that we usually overlook our own defects, but we are well aware of them in others.
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