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Blame others. Blaming others 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. Blame others for things that have gone wrong in your life.

In this quote from "The Book of Awakening," the author describes the human tendency to blame other people for our problems when in reality it is our own actions and behaviors that have brought us to where we are today. We find fault in others and then we blame them for something that is not their fault. We do this because we don't want to take responsibility for our own actions and behaviors and because we don't want to feel pain.

When we blame someone else we do not have to feel the pain of owning up to our mistakes and failures.

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