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It is admitted that someone else may well have been the principal cause of personal hurt or ill from which we suffer, but it is also needful that we honestly examine whether we ought not to take a share of the blame ourselves. For there is in us an instinctive wish to escape from our own responsibility in every painful situation.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5 : Spiritual Refinement > # 259