People Who Live In Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones
🏠 The proverb "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones" dates back several hundred years, and many authors have used it to warn folks against judging others, especially when you share the same character flaws, commit the same crimes, and make the same consistent moral misjudgments. I found a version of this statement in Benjamin Franklin's 1733 Poor Richard's Almanac: "Don't throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass." A modern phrase I heard on a podcast recently, channeled by Paul Selig, an author who channels "The Guides," puts it this way: "What you damn damns you back," meaning energetic judgment pulls you down to the same low vibration you project. When you "Damn" someone and/or label them as evil, view them as completely separate from yourself, or as unworthy of understanding, the opposite happens: you match the frequency of the soul you are othering and turn into the lower-vibrati...