A lot of people don’t like looking at their actions because, after all, they’ve done a lot of unskillful things. Well, if we had no unskillful behavior in our background, we wouldn’t be human beings.

"A lot of people don’t like looking at their actions because, after all, they’ve done a lot of unskillful things. Well, just remind yourself, all human beings have been doing unskillful things. If we had no unskillful behavior in our background, we wouldn’t be here, we’d be someplace else. So we all have habits that we have to learn how to undo, and new habits that we have to learn how to develop."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Large Perspective, Small Focus"

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