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| other hand, if you were affected by some guilt complex, you might choose to give it to | 5 HAPPINESS FOR YOURSELF OR HAPPINESS AS A LINK IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE |
| in their faults, immerse themselves in a false guilt which I have already mentioned several times. These | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| into the same unproductive current, thus increasing their guilt feelings. These guilt feelings have further consequences and | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| unproductive current, thus increasing their guilt feelings. These guilt feelings have further consequences and a chain reaction | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| will realize that the terrible upset, the exaggerated guilt feelings about faults and shortcomings, are nothing but | 7 ASKING FOR HELP AND HELPING OTHERS |
| you are not even clear about your own guilt. Humans tend to produce false, unhealthy, exaggerated guilt | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| guilt. Humans tend to produce false, unhealthy, exaggerated guilt feelings which are not justified. The inner process | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| following way: You shy away from admitting your guilt where it is justified and where you could | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| But often you will not face the real guilt, partly because in your conceit you want to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| out signals, spurring you on to recognize your guilt, but your lower self interferes with its pride | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| its pride and laziness, so you often assume guilt that is not genuine. It is as if | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| the daylight. This is the difference between false guilt and real repentance. The experience of all people | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| always been that those who recognize their real guilt lose automatically not only all false guilt complexes | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| real guilt lose automatically not only all false guilt complexes which pull them down, but feel instantly | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| people will be afraid to admit the real guilt and therefore will rather produce in their unconscious | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| produce in their unconscious all kinds of unreal guilt feelings, which either do not at all apply | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| themselves as they are, in their momentary imperfection. Guilt complexes are unreal and therefore never lead to | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| appearance and of delusion will reach the real guilt. They will find in what way they have | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| with detachment and in a relaxed way, without guilt feelings, so that you can perceive whenever your | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| yourself. Take yourself humbly and without feelings of guilt: This is the way I am, but that | 13 POSITIVE THINKING: THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG KIND |
| want to absolve themselves of personal responsibility and guilt, it is incorrect. Between these low creatures and | 15 INFLUENCE BETWEEN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD AND THE MATERIAL WORLD |
| is accepting yourself in the right way, without guilt feelings and self-abuse. The latter are unhealthy and | 25 THE PATH: INITIAL STEPS, PREPARATION, AND DECISIONS |
| the feeling of shame that manifests itself in guilt feelings, and so on. This often has an | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| In a case like this, unconscious shame and guilt is unconsciously absorbed by those around you. Because | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| of the person who has the shame and guilt feelings. There is nothing as contagious, my friends | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| happiness results from their sacrifices, the worse their guilt becomes until true inner happiness is conceived. Such | 38 IMAGES |
| becomes until true inner happiness is conceived. Such guilt is always a twist of the emotions and | 38 IMAGES |
| happiness cannot come before the image and the guilt are understood and dissolved. But in their present | 38 IMAGES |
| mind, such people feel very heroic if their guilt mingles with their devotion. QUESTION: You mentioned willpower | 38 IMAGES |
| wall that encloses you in darkness, loneliness, fear, guilt, and false shame. Only in this way can | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| of the many symptoms of this revolt is guilt. When you approach your own inner, hidden images | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| sensation. To encounter them with a feeling of guilt will get you nowhere. Realize that guilt is | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| of guilt will get you nowhere. Realize that guilt is really the rejection of the state in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| not even aware that your emotional reaction is guilt. And if you are, you do not realize | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| you do not realize what the feeling of guilt really means. In fact, it is often confused | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| burden to you as long as you feel guilt at finding your inner errors. But once you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| anger, without the wrong kind of shame or guilt, as having the courage to be yourself in | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| was that an inferiority complex is really a guilt complex, which is the wrong reaction to one's | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| 49. OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? Greetings, my friends. God bless | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| In every image you will find inferiority feelings, guilt feelings, hostility, hate, aggression, ignorance, resentment, childish selfishness | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to discuss tonight is your reaction to your guilt feelings. As I said before, everybody has guilt | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| guilt feelings. As I said before, everybody has guilt. Every image is interwoven with guilt. It is | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| everybody has guilt. Every image is interwoven with guilt. It is important to understand that there are | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| to understand that there are two kinds of guilt -- unjustified guilt and justified guilt. Often you | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| there are two kinds of guilt -- unjustified guilt and justified guilt. Often you unconsciously use an | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| kinds of guilt -- unjustified guilt and justified guilt. Often you unconsciously use an absurd, unjustified guilt | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| guilt. Often you unconsciously use an absurd, unjustified guilt as a shield and hide the true guilt | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| guilt as a shield and hide the true guilt behind it. Why? Because deep down you know | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Because deep down you know that the unjustified guilt is ridiculous. It is as though you wanted | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| you argue with your inner voice of absurd guilt, trying to convince it that it has no | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| course, all this happens unconsciously. Ironically, the true guilt may be infinitely smaller than the absurd guilt | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| guilt may be infinitely smaller than the absurd guilt you use as a wall to hide behind | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| want to stress that it is an unjustified guilt feeling when you blame yourself for not being | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| yourself for not being perfect now. Such unjustified guilt extends into all areas of the human personality | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| find where your guilts are unjustified. Another unjustified guilt -- fueled by a mass-image -- is your | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| then certainly way down deep in your emotions. Guilt about the sexual drive is unjustified, absurd guilt | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| Guilt about the sexual drive is unjustified, absurd guilt. It may be true that your sexual energy | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| guilts. What, on the other hand, is justified guilt? When you hurt other people in your ignorant | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| passively, by commission or omission -- then your guilt is justified. Differentiate clearly, my dear friends, between | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| justified. Differentiate clearly, my dear friends, between the guilt of being imperfect at this stage and the | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of being imperfect at this stage and the guilt of hurtful self-will. Being imperfect should not in | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| in itself make you feel guilty. But the guilt for hurts you inflict on others -- no | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| of your imperfection, blindness, and ignorance is justified guilt that you should meet squarely and courageously. There | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| fine and subtle, between the two types of guilt I have described. Please think about this. It | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| important. What should your attitude be toward justified guilt? What would be healthy and constructive? It would | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| your responsibility without the pride of destructive wrong guilt feelings that make you exaggerate your own badness | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| others: hopelessness about yourself -- the negative, destructive guilt feelings that make you despair of yourself; self-justification | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the person you have hurt, take the justified guilt upon yourself, wish to become different, desire to | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| on others, if you can take that justified guilt upon yourself and face it, it will give | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| life force is truth and courage. Accepting justified guilt is being in truth and it takes courage | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| not only unnecessary but sickly. It fosters wrong guilt feelings and seeks to punish the self for | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| the subconscious where it festers. The hatred causes guilt because the child is taught early that it | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| supposed to love and honor. It is this guilt, living on and on in the subconscious, which | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| out what is hidden in their subconscious. The guilt has a further, and again inevitable, reaction. Feeling | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| you feel you do not deserve it. The guilt of hating those it loves most, convinces the | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| be eradicated, yet, due to this deeply hidden guilt feeling, the stronger one desires happiness, the guiltier | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| These basic conflicts of love and hatred, of guilt and fear of punishment exist in every human | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| can atone in another way for my great guilt of hating. The imaginary atonement amounts to a | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the past, you would not feel this acute guilt all the time, even though the guilt is | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| acute guilt all the time, even though the guilt is not conscious. You think that by being | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| by accepting yourself as you are now without guilt and fear. The compulsive conscience does not know | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the more this becomes apparent, the greater the guilt becomes -- all ensuing points in the vicious | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| open? Would such a child still have a guilt feeling? ANSWER: Outer manifestations often occur in children | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| be tortured or wronged just to satisfy your guilt feelings. Accept another's wrong in a healthy attitude | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| its wickedness. Added to this is your general guilt feeling that arises from the main vicious circle | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| motives -- bargaining for a reward, pacifying a guilt feeling, or nurturing a desire for self-destruction. All | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| breaking- points. One of your handicaps is your guilt feeling, or rather your wrong attitude toward guilt | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| guilt feeling, or rather your wrong attitude toward guilt. To understand that, it might be advisable to | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| to face it without the wrong kind of guilt feelings -- and you should all be able | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| up your deviation out of a sense of guilt. Look rather for that in you which causes | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| stifling the right emotion in the fear and guilt caused by the possible wrong one that you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is again a victory. View these reactions without guilt, from the wise distance you should have toward | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| is comparatively small, it may be heightened by guilt and suppression. But by facing it, it will | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| was sinful. Your unconscious wrong conclusions, plus your guilt and fear, caused your sexuality to remain almost | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| happen by associating this concept with unhealthy self-blame, guilt, and inferiority feelings. In other words, the opposite | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| might use the word self-responsibility to nourish your guilt and your inferiority feelings. You might say to | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| one feels all the more guilty and inferior. Guilt cannot remedy this situation. You can only do | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| belief that it will alleviate your feelings of guilt and inferiority. And the more you clamor for | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| feelings of inadequacy and inferiority, of regret and guilt. For the child does not yet know that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| so that each failure causes additional despair and guilt, increasing the feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. There | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| reality would increase your feelings of failure and guilt. This, in turn, would lead to a tendency | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| to love in return, simply recognize it without guilt. If you have departed from your infant-desire for | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for unhappiness -- is the result of deep-rooted guilt feelings. This is only partly true. It is | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the other way around. There is no greater guilt feeling and shame in the human soul than | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and shame in the human soul than the guilt due to provoking and collecting unhappiness. You may | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| You may ask why this should cause more guilt than anything else. I might safely say that | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| anything else. I might safely say that the guilt and shame due to provoking unhappiness and collecting | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and collecting miseries is the mother of all guilt and shame and is at the root of | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| and is at the root of all other guilt feelings. All the feelings of guilt and shame | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| all other guilt feelings. All the feelings of guilt and shame you have found so far are | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| are superficial levels and coverups for the real guilt. The proof of this is that the guilt | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| guilt. The proof of this is that the guilt feelings you have unearthed and acknowledged still linger | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| disappeared. Had you found the real reason, the guilt would have had to disappear, for then a | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| the right approach there is no room for guilt feelings. The very nature of a guilt feeling | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| for guilt feelings. The very nature of a guilt feeling, which stifles your determined effort to find | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| guilty for something I cannot help. Therefore, a guilt feeling inevitably contains an element of self-pity. Without | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| of self-pity. Without self-pity there could be no guilt feeling. The true and constructive way of searching | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you will encounter them without a trace of guilt. With the proper attitude, you accept your inadequacies | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| the phantom conclusion that you cannot err. The guilt and fear of making mistakes is so hard | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| to a variety of faults without the slightest guilt or fear. In this particular respect you have | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| do not have this feeling of shame and guilt. You can admit them to yourself and even | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| give you an acute feeling of shame or guilt. You cannot face it, you look away, you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| answer them. QUESTION: A few times you mentioned guilt and shame. Could one be ashamed of something | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| shame. Could one be ashamed of something without guilt feelings? ANSWER: Yes, of course. This is always | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| but if it strengthens you, it contains no guilt. If it is free of self-pity, of the | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| repentance that has nothing whatever to do with guilt. So it is indeed possible that shame can | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| is indeed possible that shame can exist without guilt. And it is also possible the other way | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |