If our spiritual aim in life is authentic inner change, then we must know two facts.  First, any measure of true self-change is the positive effect of one having paid the price to realize some new degree of self-wholeness… Which means, secondly, that any time we look outside of ourselves and find blame with others for putting us through painful changes, we are inwardly divided and must be headed in the wrong direction.

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