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Quetzal


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Stop making excuses for other people.

Stop making excuses for ourselves.

While it is our goal to develop compassion and achieve forgiveness, acceptance, and love, it is also our goal to accept reality and hold people accountable for their behavior. We can also hold ourselves accountable for our own behavior and, at the same time, have compassion and understanding for ourselves.

When we claim powerlessness, we are not claiming irresponsibility. We have no power to control others, what they do, what they did, or what they might do. We're stating that we are willing to end an ineffective life based on willpower and control. And we're beginning a spiritual, mental, and emotional journey in which we take responsibility for ourselves.

We are not victims. We are not helpless. Accepting powerlessness when that is appropriate enables us to begin owning our true power to take care of ourselves.

Today, I will avoid making excuses for my own or someone else's behavior. I will let consequences and responsibility fall where they belong.

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Amen :)

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Nice!, can you tell me what book it's quoted from, and do you have a link to the source? I'd like to go there :D
thanks,
Dean

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Hi Dean,

That was from Language Of Letting Go, which is part of Hazleden Thought For The Day website. They have a few different thoughts that change on a daily basis. It's a good website. The url is:-

http://www.hazelden.org/web/public/thought.view?catId=1904

Take care,

Carol



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This sounds like an echo of a long conversation that I had with a friend last night, who is struggling with mild frustration over her husband. It was a great conversation because I knew exactly what she was talking about, and in talking she was also taking responsibility for herself and starting to let go of what she couldn't control about her husband (annoying as it was). It was refreshing to hear someone who loves her husband so much get very annoyed, still love him, look at herself, and start to move forward.

Isn't this all what life is about?

I'm so grateful to be a part of life today.

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