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“We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society.
It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others....Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground.”
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It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others....Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground.”
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“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”
― Nineteen Minutes
― Nineteen Minutes
“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
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