Sometimes all you can do is breathe...

 

Thich Nhat Hanh

I am posting these words from Thich Nhat Hanh in case you find them helpful. The angels say, "Often we want to blame other people or the world for our unhappiness. When we look deeper, we understand that we cause our unhappiness. We cause our unhappiness when we are not present in our  life. When we do not show up to take care of our life, we give permission to someone else to do it for us. We give unconscious thoughts permission to run our life.

And the angels say, "When we speak without conscious thought, without empathy, without considering another person’s feelings, we are like someone throwing a ball repeatedly against a wall — we might be enjoying it, but does the wall?"

empathy:
    1. the quality or process of entering fully through imagination into another's feelings or motives, into the meaning of a work of art, or the like.
      2. the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.