Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 2
There is no harm in seeing and observing [the behaviour of others] if it is done with sympathy and impartiality – it is the tendency unnecessarily to criticise, find fault, condemn others (often quite wrongly) which creates a bad atmosphere both for oneself and others. And why this harshness and cocksure condemnation? Has not each man his own faults – why should he be so eager to find fault with others and condemn them? Sometimes one has to judge but it should not be done hastily or in a censorious spirit.