Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not....

“ Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him. ”

Paul Brunton

From : The Notebooks of Paul Brunton