"Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.
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