Feeling Guilty Too Much, Part 3 (TMF:1991)

Monday, November 28, 2022
Peace to Live By: Feeling Guilty Too Much, Part 3 (TMF:1991) - Daniel Litton
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       I was thinking about this, and I had the thought, “You know, out of twenty different things I have guilty thoughts over, all but one of them is really authentic.” That is, the vast majority of times we believe we should feel guilty about something, we shouldn’t. There is only a one in twenty chance that we really are guilty, and even then, we need to recognize it, surrender to it, and thus give it up. That’s the way it works. What is regret? Regret is an unresolved issue in the mind. It is guilt over something that one perceives he or she should have done better. So regret present in our minds means that we haven’t let the situation go. We haven’t faced it head on, but have been pushing it down inside ourselves over and over again. The only way regret can disappear is when we face whatever thought, or really series of thoughts, are tied to it.