Do we take criticism personally? If we remain neutral then we can understand criticism.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once on the earth in a golden hour,
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Here are two quotes and how do you understand them?

I would say both are applicable to us. We need to wipe the mirror of our mind and then we would see ourselves as we are.

Aim Hrim Klim