• stickyprimer@lemmy.world
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    “mote” as in a speck of dust

    “beam” as in a huge plank of wood

    Basically don’t point out small faults of your neighbor while ignoring huge faults of your own.

    It’s a metaphor. No one has a beam in their eye. But it’s a metaphor that drops suddenly in the second half, because you can literally imagine a mote in someone’s eye.