The Mirror of their Souls

July 23, 2008 by fbk.

Victor Davis Hanson had a post on The Corner recently that reminded me of some old spiritual teachings.  Here is the money quote:

“What is fascinating about the tingly-leg press is that they are exhibiting the very symptoms of arrested development and star-struck immaturity that they always accuse America in toto of suffering. The usual critique of the elite media is that we are a nation of mindless followers, who go from one fad to another, and value looks, youth, and pizzazz over substance.”

I’ve long found the best measure of a man is what he says about others.  Dr. Hanson seems to be seeing an example of the old spiritual teaching that the outer world is a reflection of the inner world.  What we see outside of us is what is actually within us and what we are.  Pay attention to what politicians say about others:

“That’s not the man I knew all of these years.”  Sounds like a man who will be different than what you have seen on the outside, doesn’t it?

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