Open and listening

I expect nothing in return – I love tranquility.
Even windswept chaff of quarrels
will weigh upon me
like a heavy oil press’s plank.

But I’m open to everyone
and I can admit that I’ve erred
and by way of truth’s light
I rejoice in it.

I want to receive the truth from everyone –
and it is not my nature to hold on, but to listen.
After all, what is a human being but a misjudgment.

              Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, known as the Hazon Ish