“If we take a stand any time and start acting outside of guilt, especially if it appears to disadvantage someone else, we are immediately judged, and judged harshly, and the guilt flak starts flying thick and fast. By this means, then, we can see that guilt is self-perpetuating, feeding on itself like a virus in the mind. Having started the ball rolling many centuries ago, modern man has succeeded in creating himself guiltier and guiltier. We have even come to accept it as a normal state of living.
Why has this state of being become the norm? Why do we place so much emphasis on what others think, inevitably to our own detriment? By what right does anyone else know what is best for me? How can he possibly know, when only I know the fullness of my own experiences, my own hopes and intentions for myself, the range of experiences I need for my own development? Who else can judge and find me wanting in any respect, not being in possession of full knowledge of these things? And therefore, by what right do I hand over my personal power to others, and allow their judgments and opinions to take control of my life?
How did we ever come to lose the intuitive sense of knowing what is best for us, what is right for ourselves in what we do and how we do it, and the courage to stand by this knowingness, no matter what? I believe that guilt is at the basis of all loss of self-value, self-esteem, personal power, self-trust, self-love, self-honor, and our loss of faither in the God Within.”
Jill Turland, in “Getting Back on Track – Using Megapotency Homeopathy”
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