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THE SELF WAS SIMPLY IN THE WAY

Book by Ayisha Bhatti · 7 quotes · Spirituality, Self, Spiritual Growth

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“This is perhaps the central and most consistent cruelty of avoidance — that it inflates what it fears. The difficult conversation, approached with honesty and genuine care, is rarely as devastating as the months of anticipation suggested. The painful feeling, when finally allowed to surface and move through, is rarely as overwhelming as the years of outrunning it implied.”

“Anger rarely begins with the moment in front of us. It is the echo of something older — a bruise we never tended, a disappointment we swallowed, a boundary we didn’t know how to name. It rises because something inside us feels unseen, unheard, or unprotected. And instead of reaching inward to understand the wound, we reach outward to strike at whatever is closest.”