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He used to say, Despise not any man, and carp not at any thing; for thou wilt find that there is not a man that has not his hour, and not a thing that has not its place.
Source Pirkei Avot 4:2-5 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to Ben Azzai, one of the masters quoted in the Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot), we should despise no one and nothing, for every being has its hour and every thing its place. Today, when you feel a judgement about someone rising in you, replace it with the question: “What might their hour be?”
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