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The Truth About Guilt

Guilt is a useless emotion. It interferes with learning and is based on something completely false. I'm not talking about the process where you recognize a mistake and learn from it, this benefits you. But the thought-forms of guilt do more to interfere with your learning from mistakes, because what you're actually doing is ruminating over what was said or done rather than deciding that you will not do or say that thing again. Learning from a mistake is a decision you make. Guilt, on the other hand, is that lingering and repeating thought and feeling that holds that you've hurt someone or that your actions have caused someone real harm. There's no benefit or purpose to hanging on to that feeling. It's not useful to your learning, your growth, or your peace of mind. When you feel guilty, you walk around with this subtle or heavy feeling of self-punishment. "I shouldn't have done that" or "I shouldn't have said that" you say to yourself and you feel bad about it.

But ask yourself, is guilt a useful emotion?

And who does this really "harm?"

Does feeling guilty even change the situation?

Who does feeling guilty benefit?

The fact remains that the truth of anyone cannot come to harm. Who and what we are at our essence is immune to the words and actions of others. Our spirit is invulnerable. It cannot be broken or injured in any way. The core of your being is unchanging. It does not become affected by the words or actions of the outside world. Does the sun change shape when you throw a rock toward it?

The part of people that "feels" any kind of injury is really the ego, the projected self, the conditioned self and the false perception that people are their identities. People are not their identities.

Nothing can harm your essence. And the only thing that alters your own peace of mind is the thought-forms you keep and the emotions that accompany these thought-forms.

In the same light, who is it that "feels" guilt? Is it your truth or is it your projected sense of "I-ness," your conditioned self? Which part of you is it that believes it can actually cause harm to another? Which part of you is it that believes it can be harmed by other's? Think about that the next time some situations arouses feelings of guilt within you. Face this guilt for what it is, a false belief that veils your awareness from the truth within you, and recognize it as a thought-form that is of no use to you on many levels.

So ask yourself, are the thought-forms of guilt useful to me

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