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"He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us His holy Spirit."--I Thessalonians 4:8
You can blame any one of or all of the following 100 reasons for your problems:
- abuse
- addiction
- additives
- adopted
- advantages
- air quality
- alcohol
- angels
- asbestos insulation
- bacteria
- balance
- biohazards
- biology
- birth experience
- birth order
- chemical imbalance
- childhood
- class
- computers
- conditioning
- culture
- depleted soils
- devils
- diet
- disease
- drugs
- economy
- education
- environment
- ethnic group
- exercise
- experience
- family
- fertilizers
- flow of chi
- food
- foster-care experiences
- fungus
- genes
- God
- greed
- harmony
- hereditary
- heritage
- hormones
- human nature
- illness
- influences
- lack of ...
- lack of love
- lead paint
- lead pipes
- maya
- media
- men
- microbes
- moon: Eastern astrology
- neurology
- neighborhood
- opportunity
- parenting
- parents
- peers
- pesticides
- poisoned water
- poisoned air
- pollution
- posture
- power plants
- prejudice
- processed foods
- programming
- psychology
- race
- racism
- radon poisoning
- radiation
- relationships
- religious leaders
- religious training
- scripts
- sex
- single-parent home
- sociology
- spinal alignment
- spirits
- spiritual
- stress
- sun: Western astrology
- support system
- suppression
- teachers
- toxins
- trauma
- viruses
- vitamins
- water quality
- women
- work
- work environment
Or you can take responsibility for your own mind, thinking, feeling, behaving AND attitude.
Which do you think will help you the most? (1) to blame other causes; (2) to blame your own thinking and to change it without blaming or damning your being.
QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us His holy Spirit."--I Thessalonians 4:8
"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."--Booker Taliaferro Washington, 1856-1915
"As long as the mind is in conflict--blaming, resisting, condemning--there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously."--J. Krishnamurti in The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume V, page 51
"You are what you hate not what you ate."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."--Charles M. Schwab
"We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming--or damning."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 127. Order A Guide to Rational Living.
'Damning is the worst form of demanding."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally--about anything. Yes, anything."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 127
"Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone."--William Shakespeare
"The moment you blame anyone for anything, your relationship and your personal power deteriorate."--Brian Koslow
"And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 130
"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache."--Bernard Baruch
"Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel."--Ecclesiasticus 30:21
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."--Baruch Spinoza
"Being right does not give you the right to damn."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 205
"Only God can damn without serving Satan."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."--Anonymous
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."--Erica Jong
"Teaching the principle of emotional responsibility can be one of the hardest tasks in REBT as clients may have habitually blamed others for their problems and now the therapist is pointing to the true source of their emotional problems--themselves."--Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Advances in Theory & Practice, page 43
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."--Agnes Repplier
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."--Marcus Seneca
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."--Anonymous
"Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it."--Ovid
"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."--Samuel Johnson
"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."--Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"A baby expects to be soothed, but a mature adult soothes themselves."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Adults are expert at self-disturbance and inept at self-soothing."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"No one has ever gotten to anyone."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If pleasure first, then pain second."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"There is no man so low that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself."--Thomas L. Masson
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."--Joan Didion
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."--Mark Twain
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."--Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980
"But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another."--Galatians 6:4
"Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?"--Annonymous
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