Writer's Digestion

Blame is easier than understanding. It saves us the effort of thinking, and it spares us the pain of confronting our own flaws. But understanding is power—it allows us to see the world as it is, and people as they are, not as we wish them to be.  - Robert Greene, "The Laws of Human Nature" Life comes with challenges. Nobody would argue with that. But how those challenges come about, and how they are processed represents a whole range of human experience and a huge array of individual choices. Do we have free will? Lets assume we do, because if we didn't there can be no relevant conversation on self-improvement or justification in our own feelings and conclusions, which is the topic of this post. So if we and everyone has free well, then we are free to blame ourselves or others for whatever ills we are facing. Dr. David Hawkins describes blame as merely a transfer of one's pain. It is an outward-focused emotion, facing the pain outward and is disempowering to oneself. ...