When personal guilt in relation to a past event becomes a continuous cloud over your life, you are locked in a mental prison. You have become your own jailer. Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility. Self-compassion is a wonderful gift to give yourself. You should never reduce the mystery and expanse of your presence to a haunted fixation with something you did or did not do. To learn the art of integrating your faults is to begin a journey of healing on which you will regain your poise and find new creativity. Your soul is more immense than any one moment or event in your past. When you allow guilt to fester and reduce you like this, it has little to do with guilt. The guilt is only an uncomfortable but convenient excuse for your fear of growth. John O'Donohue

What we see when watching others..... Depends on the clarity of the window in which we look.

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When we take ownership and responsibility for ourselves we nourish and manifest a motivation to develop and grow

I like this view :)

'To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.’ Erich Fromm

Reconcile with yourself for the sake of the world, for the sake of all living beings. Your peace and serenity are crucial for all of us. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Cognitive distortions are irrational or extreme thinking patterns that affect one's perception of reality, usually in a negative way.

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” ― C.G.Jung Do you agree?

“And so, onwards....along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence....however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through--false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes--into your goal, with nothing left over.” Friedrich Nietzsche