“One of the good things I had leaned from my superiors was that guilt could be pure self-indulgence, a wallowing in the ego. Guilt, I was told, usually sprang from misplaced pride; it might simply be chagrin that you were not as wonderful as you hoped.”
Karen Armstrong’s The Spiral Staircase.
Puts a whole new perspective on it. I can never leave the 'old' whiny ways. I thought that I was out of it already but this just puts it under a new light. A clearer light.
heh. inaction and boredom. gaah
1 comment:
i used to think guilt was a feeling akin to wanting to be someone else.
i try not to think anymore.
but wow. i'll see if its available at the uni's library.
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