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Why asking for forgiveness doesn't break repetitive thought patterns

I have been doing istighfar for years but the same patterns of anger and resentment keep cycling through my mind like a broken record

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Ritual repentance addresses symptoms while deeper unconscious emotional patterns remain unexamined and unchanged.

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