They Practice but They Do Not Practice

One of the funniest things in the Sacred Scriptures is Jesus calling out those who preach, but they do not practice what they preach. They impose on the others the burden of obeying the law that they themselves do not obey. That is funny, right? We need to be consistent with ourselves. We need to keep that unity in our lives--otherwise, it will be farce and, if we are teachers or in some kind of authority, we lose that authority and moral authority,--what we say, we do; what we do is consistent with what we think and say. All three need to agree with each other. If there is a part of us that is discordant with the others, our being will seek unity among them, such that if even we teach what is right, but we do not practice that, there develops in us a certain tension that clamors for resolution and unification. So, what can happen is that, although we teach what is right, we reach a point when we change that too, since we practice otherwise.