| that makes no sense to you. Although this guilt usually hides behind other attitudes, it is rarely | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| seem, the total self-rejection, the destructive kind of guilt under discussion is incapable of overcoming anything. You | 174 SELF-ESTEEM |
| It will not do if you assuage your guilt for your negative creation by telling yourself you | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| the negative, but this time unmarred by suffering, guilt, fear, and self-blame, the world opens up before | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| happiness into your soul or eliminate the pervasive guilt you seek to explain away by false guilts | 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY |
| with the world around you. You feel no guilt or hesitation. On the contrary, you will feel | 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE |
| evaluated at once. He incurs the worst suffering, guilt, and loneliness. He sacrifices pleasure, fulfillment, love, growth | 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE |
| your self, without using the defense of annihilating guilt and self-blame, which of course eliminates any possibility | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| Begin to question yourself and cease placing the guilt on others, which is always a hidden form | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| spreads poison, fear, and at least as much guilt as one tries to project. The recipients of | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| to project. The recipients of this blame and guilt may react in many different ways, according to | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| the reaction is blind and the projection of guilt unconscious, the counterreaction must also be neurotic and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| is all the more difficult to detect because guilt projection is so widespread. Also, the recipients should | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| can avoid becoming a victim of blame and guilt projection is to avoid doing it yourself. To | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| negativities and destructiveness, can you defuse someone else's guilt projection. Only then will you not be drawn | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| will resort to using the whip of loading guilt upon each other. Loving, sharing, and profound and | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| problems, helping each other, rather than placing mutual guilt on each other and whitewashing themselves? The answers | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| still at that primitive juncture where you shift guilt on others. Fear and uncertainty will make it | 180 THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP |
| ruthless selfwill? When the misconceptions are being recognized, guilt and self-hate diminish proportionately. What are the consequences | 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF) |
| indirectly -- with very damaging results. Thus your guilt compounds because the evil you hoped to eliminate | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| approach reinforces your fear of yourself and your guilt; therefore, it only increases the chasm within your | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| within your soul. The energies of fear and guilt are used to force yourself to be good | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| out. In such a case it is the guilt that would be repressed, creating further splitting and | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| of anger turns into hostility, cruelty, spite, self-hate, guilt, confusion between blame of others and blame of | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| Even your pangs of conscience, notwithstanding the misplaced guilt, spring from the best and most beautiful manifestations | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| negative trait but at the tremendous cost of guilt, self- deprivation, insecurity, and fear of not being | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| to pay the needless cost of worry, anxiety, guilt, and inability to manage well. You only pay | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| be deeper, more lasting, and totally free of guilt when you combine its rightfulness with self-discipline. If | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| what is in you out of fear and guilt, thereby paralyzing the best in you. To those | 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE |
| involved, with their meaning -- rage, hate, fear, guilt, blame -- and all the tightnesses in body | 187 (THE WAY TO HANDLE) ALTERNATION OF EXPANSIVE AND CONTRACTING STATES |
| must also deal with the confusion of your guilt. Hidden guilt is devastating, because it creates a | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| deal with the confusion of your guilt. Hidden guilt is devastating, because it creates a vicious circle | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| transforming it. This incapacity in turn increases the guilt. The more you hide from yourself, the more | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| not manifest in overt acts, your so-called unconscious guilt leads you into manifest hating actions and attitudes | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| the goodness of being. Now, how is this guilt to be handled? There are two basic schools | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| have an effect on others. Thus, a true guilt exists for these thoughts and attitudes. Also, we | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| mutually exclusive? You need to realize that your guilt for your primitive destructive self is more destructive | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| of hidden attitudes. Yet to assume self-destructive, self-eroding guilt about hidden destructiveness makes matters so much worse | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| makes matters so much worse. Due to this guilt you annihilate yourself and thus become more destructive | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| distortions and destructive tendencies, you liberate yourself from guilt regardless of how wrong others may be. You | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| is extremely liberating. It frees you from self-eroding guilt without removing the responsibility that is yours. It | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| does affect you, there must be self-doubt and guilt in you as a result of not having | 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED |
| expression of the lower self. But the giant guilt that threatens to punish these destructive aspects with | 189 SELF-IDENTIFICATION DETERMINED THROUGH STAGES OF CONSCIOUSNESS |
| have encountered your deepest feelings of fear, pain, guilt and anger, feelings which you first experienced in | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| worse these inner traits are, the greater the guilt and the self-evasion, which make it impossible to | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| such as cruelty, vindictiveness, and so on. The guilt and self-hate for these make the original pain | 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS |
| whole. It also indicates that a sense of guilt is attached to admitting one's fallacy and distortion | 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS |
| negative feelings, cosmic law is broken. This causes guilt and fear, which in turn require defenses. The | 194 MEDITATION: LAWS AND VARIOUS APPROACHES-SUMMARY (MEDITATION AS POSITIVE LIFE CREATION) |
| bad parents to become good parents out of guilt, using your misery as a weapon against them | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| fully and joyfully and it causes you severe guilt and self-punishment. There must be a powerful reason | 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| inexplicable anxiety and tension? Do you suffer from guilt feelings which you cannot explain and try to | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| to talk yourself out of because the manifest guilt seems -- and on a certain level is | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| these traits must make you feel guilty. Such guilt may find its outlet in an artificial, unjustified | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| may find its outlet in an artificial, unjustified guilt as I have explained many years ago. Guilt | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| guilt as I have explained many years ago. Guilt must also lead to self-destructive acts; it must | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| through illegitimate means. This, of course, fortifies the guilt. The guilt increases the fear of meeting yourself | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| means. This, of course, fortifies the guilt. The guilt increases the fear of meeting yourself in honesty | 196 COMMITMENT: CAUSE AND EFFECT |
| self they congeal into a festering sore of guilt and self-doubt which, translated into concise words, would | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| is understood, you can experience it cleanly, without guilt, self-doubt, weakness, and lingering ill-effects. Jealousy and envy | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| always be confused. You will always fluctuate between guilt and resentment, between negation and rejection of self | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| will sense something and fluctuate between resentment and guilt, as I mentioned before. Lack of clarity about | 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY |
| unrecognized. I advise you not to let overwhelming guilt dissuade you from this course. Recognize it as | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| as yet another ego trick. By such devastating guilt you prevent yourself from lifting yourself up, from | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| very exposure of your ugliness. Neither aggrandize the guilt, so that it keeps you cowering in repression | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| Allow yourself to feel the pain of your guilt, so that you fully see its whole impact | 200 THE COSMIC FEELING |
| 201. DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT My dearest friends, greetings and blessings for everyone | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| and others pain and frustration, unfulfillment, and perpetual guilt and longing. It is extremely difficult to change | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| and wanting to give up dishonesty is your guilt for pain you have inflicted, or are still | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| aspect of pain: feeling the pain of your guilt for having inflicted pain on others. This is | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| religion had indoctrinated man with a distorted, debilitating guilt feeling: false guilts, fear of a punishing God | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| false guilts, fear of a punishing God, a guilt that did not make it possible for human | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| I make a clear distinction between remorse and guilt: remorse is the deeply felt pain of your | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| when the pain of remorse is fully savored. Guilt crushes the self and denies its intrinsic divinity | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| swung away from the opposite extreme, makes all guilt appear neurotic. In fact, there is a difference | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| fact, there is a difference between neurotic false guilt and real guilt and one can hide the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| a difference between neurotic false guilt and real guilt and one can hide the other. I have | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| a constructive way the pain of your own guilt either. The guilt of your own distortions must | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the pain of your own guilt either. The guilt of your own distortions must be fully faced | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| you are crushed by the pain of your guilt, this is only because you have decided to | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| reaction. Yes, you will feel the pain of guilt, and so you should. But as with the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| give up the negative pattern, the pain of guilt will make way for a wonderful new energy | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| or worthless, without crumbling under a load of guilt. Feel the pain of your withholding, of your | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| If you cannot bear the pain of your guilt and look away from it, then you cannot | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the most important keys you need. Facing the guilt for the pain you inflict on others is | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| more you hide from the pain of your guilt, the more ruthlessly you punish yourself. Conversely, it | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the following way: punishing yourself for your unfaced guilt, you must stay in the very attitude that | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| the very attitude that accumulates more and more guilt. You are truly caught in one of the | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| that you cannot face the pain of your guilt, you cut yourself off from your heart, your | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| really are. Feel both the pain of your guilt and the beauty of your real self. Thus | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| this, as you feel the pain of the guilt and the pain of what has been done | 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT |
| loss of love and also the pain of guilt that I talked of in the last lecture | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| by denying your negativity you incur a double guilt. First, there is the guilt for the negative | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| incur a double guilt. First, there is the guilt for the negative attitude in question. This we | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| in question. This we may call the primary guilt. Then you are involved in the guilt for | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| primary guilt. Then you are involved in the guilt for denying this negativity, which we may call | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| this negativity, which we may call the secondary guilt. If the primary guilt were admitted and its | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| may call the secondary guilt. If the primary guilt were admitted and its consequences truly accepted, it | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| truly accepted, it would cease to be a guilt. But the secondary guilt must weigh heavily on | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| cease to be a guilt. But the secondary guilt must weigh heavily on everyone's soul. It is | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| least you do not hook others into your guilt for not loving. You will be alone, of | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the result of freeing yourself of the secondary guilt. The more you expose every detail of the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| being met, the more you clear yourself of guilt. The clearer you can see the preposterous unfairness | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| by the honest admission of your negativity. The guilt caused by your unfair demands, your spite, the | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the withholding of your love, and the compounded guilt caused by punishing others for your misery, must | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| will never work unless you face the secondary guilt and give it up by admitting it. Then | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| stay, if you so choose, with the primary guilt -- the guilt of not wanting to love | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| so choose, with the primary guilt -- the guilt of not wanting to love, but at least | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| seem desirable in order to whitewash yourself of guilt, you will become anxious, afraid, threatened with having | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the other is all bad attitude creates confusion, guilt, and self-doubt. Psyche to psyche, the following interaction | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| you by the denial of his or her guilt, suddenly said to you: I realize that I | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| truthful. By setting others free from the false guilt you have placed on them in order to | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| allow them to look at their own real guilt without self-devastation and without this painful inner struggle | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| this helping hand. For the dishonest placing of guilt on others makes their true self- revelation almost | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| almost impossible; it implies that if they admit guilt you are right in accusing them of being | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| not all alone in my hidden shame and guilt. Maybe I can let go. Maybe I, too | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| takes you out of the confusion and the guilt of Where am I at fault in my | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| discussed in the last lecture the pain of guilt. The worst pain of guilt comes when you | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the pain of guilt. The worst pain of guilt comes when you do not quite know what | 202 PSYCHIC INTERACTION OF NEGATIVITY |
| the psyche now: pain, meanness, malice, hate, suffering, guilt, fear, terror. All these must be transcended. Then | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| face and deal with their dark aspects. The guilt for the latter is constantly atoned for by | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| which are supposedly doorways to heaven. Yet this guilt cannot be wiped out unless the personality deals | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| No amount of forsaking will wipe out the guilt for avoiding purification of the soul. I would | 204 WHAT IS THE PATH? |
| yourself truthfully. The moment you do so all guilt, self-rejection and self-blame disappear. You know this, for | 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE |
| level. This can only be done healthily without guilt when you have dealt with and eliminated your | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| admit it, the outcome must be undesirable. Your guilt for this hidden motivation will be a shield | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| possibly be generalized. For example, if both the guilt and the ensuing self-punishment are denied and repressed | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| the other. Hating, selfish, cruel sex always produces guilt which is then dismissed and rationalized as coming | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| coming from a puritanical and unenlightened attitude. But guilt still prevails, in spite of all enlightenment. Where | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| enlightenment. Where is the origin of such a guilt? Surely guilt begins in the concealed hatred and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| is the origin of such a guilt? Surely guilt begins in the concealed hatred and brutality that | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| for power, it cannot help but produce inexplicable guilt, or guilt that is explained away with people's | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| it cannot help but produce inexplicable guilt, or guilt that is explained away with people's backgrounds and | 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY |
| deal with on the conscious level. Fear and guilt are potent creative agents. They contain a great | 208 THE INNATE HUMAN CAPACITY TO CREATE |
| need to be avoided, whether they be pain, guilt, fear, or whatever. Again and again you will | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| reasons or competitive power drives. Then the inner guilt will not let you make it happen. There | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| after it has been created. The real inner guilt that psychologists all chalk up to neurotic guilt | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| guilt that psychologists all chalk up to neurotic guilt operates here. Such guilt is neurotic only when | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| chalk up to neurotic guilt operates here. Such guilt is neurotic only when it expresses itself in | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| hides an unwillingness to give up a real guilt. So when you find resistance to happiness, look | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| for the meaning and the areas of justified guilt. Inner unity with your eternal self makes it | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| and assertive -- even angry -- without false guilt. You will know and act from within because | 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE |
| hiding. For hiding always requires projecting your real guilt on others, blaming, self-whitewashing, hypocrisy, and so on | 211 OUTER EVENTS REFLECT SELF-CREATION -- THREE STAGES |