Seth -- ...as if concentrating upon errors will do anything but compound them...

People generally have been taught to play down their own heroism, and to concentrate upon man’s weaknesses, and so your newspapers contain categorized fact upon fact, emphasizing man’s errors and stupidities.

It has become virtuous to keep track of these, as if concentrating upon errors will do anything but compound them.

—Seth, The Personal Sessions: Book 4 of The Deleted Seth Material; Deleted Session December 3, 1977