look in not look out

As a Seeker of the Divine Path, many of us strife to point out what is wrong with the practice of others ( i am soooooo guilty of that ) But what I realised over this weekend is that... it doesnt matter if the other person practices correctly or not, what matters is, is MY own practice correct or not? It is so way easy to say, so and so is not Buddhist like, or so and so is very un Christian like or so and so has big anger, big ego and big pride.... question is are we sure WE dont have those very traits we fault find in others? Unless we ourselves have those faults, how do we know what those faults look like? What we see in others is usually a reflection of what we have within.

As many sages and saint of the past have done:

" Be the Comforter of the Masses,
and not expect to BE Comforted by the Masses
Be the Hope and Light of Others,
and not expect to find Hope and Light from Others,
Be the one who Receives the pain of others,
and not expect others to receive Pains from us.
Be the one whom other seek in times of need,
For THEN you know, the Spiritual Path of which you tread has bourne some fruit,
For why else would a distressed one seek comfort and solacefrom you unless there is solace and comfort seen in their eyes?"