I recently found a yellowed newspaper clipping, part of a column which warns
that you should distrust yourself when you are tempted to establish your own lifestyle as the norm by which others are to be judged. Included was a paragraph by St. Theresa written in the 16th century:
"Let us look at our own shortcomings and leave other people's alone; for those who live carefully ordered lives are apt to be shocked at everything, and we might well learn very important lessons from the persons who shock us. . .There is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel by our own road, and we should not attempt to point them to the spiritual path when perhaps we do not know what it is."
