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--- Todaysgift@... wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 04:15:09 -0500 (CDT)

> From: Todaysgift@...

> t_tennille@...

> Subject: Today's Gift - 06/02/06

>

> Today's thought is:

>

> Fair play is primarily not blaming others for

> anything that is wrong with us.

> -- Hoffer

>

> As adults, we accept responsibility for our feelings

> and our circumstances. We haven't chosen our own

> troubles, but we have the job of dealing with them.

> If a man falls and breaks a leg, he might say to

> someone, " It's your fault, and I'll make you pay for

> this! " But that won't fix his leg. The healing still

> has to come from within.

>

> Our impulse to blame others is an attempt to escape

> our responsibilities. We become overcritical. We

> want someone else to take the rap for our pain and

> our misdeeds, but this only delays our wholeness.

> There is no point in blaming ourselves either. When

> we first confront our discomfort directly and accept

> responsibility for dealing with it, we feel an inner

> urge to escape again. If we stay with the discomfort

> a while, a new stage begins -- the healing and

> acceptance stage. A feeling of wholeness comes, a

> feeling of being a real person, of having reached

> our full size.

>

> May I not indulge in blame today -- toward myself or

> anyone else. Instead, may I be strong and

> responsible.

>

>

> You are reading from the book:

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> *Touchstones by Anonymous* [

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