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Confucius - The Analects - Li Ren 07
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
[4-7] 子曰。人之過也、各於其黨。觀過、斯知仁矣。
[4:7] The Master said: “People err according to their own level. It is by observing a person's mistakes that you can know his/her goodness.”
[Translator's Comment: No one is perfect, free from error. But when someone makes a mistake in a human relationship, we can tell by the type of mistake, and by the person's way of dealing with it, what her/his true character is like]