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THEOLOGOS
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Guilt and the complex labyrinth that is the human mind and emotions... ![]() This is a difficult commentary from Theologos but I suggest you not give up. It follows on logically from his commentary last week which was about "learning to trust our spiritual intuition and inner guide". Today he's looking at some of the factors which prevent us hearing our inner guide. It may take three or four readings of the text to grasp what he is getting at. Here is the editor's potted summary of what Theologos is endeavouring to get across derived both from the text and further conversation with him: Thinking can often lead to doing, when the doer realises that a thought is worth its while in creating its outcome. It is when the thought is denied our action that we fail to enact into life that which is now plaguing our memory with the thought that had we so done, we could then move onto into creating the next thought into an action that would reveal more of ourself as the creator of our life. Our constant unwillingness to come to terms with all that we wish our life to be, creates a turmoil within our thinking that fails to realise our purpose in being alive. This inertia is the seed of guilt that will attempt to remind us in its nervous release of memory lapses that it requires our immediate attention, if we are to return our life to its normal equilibrium. Amnesia is the thought that fails to find its way into our conscious understanding, of all that it refuses us to remember. Guilt can drag its victim into the inner most depths of mindless rejection of the human need to always view life with a calm sense of proportion, on how it will deal with all and every matter that it encounters in its daily routine of living. It is in the thought that facing life will produce the confused reactions and moments of profound thoughtless behaviour, that guilt will propel its carrier to always keep looking into the past in order to consider why it does not face its present with the enthusiasm that evidences its calm, reassuring control of its life. Looking to our past refusals to accept the facts that daily present us with our need to keep creating all that life will send us to reveal, will sooner or later deny us our right to live in the present of all that we should be as a result of facing the music. For in denial of our need to always come to terms with life's joys and misfortunes we are attempting to avoid all that is our very real joy to experience, whatever the experience may reveal.
When we witness the life of the disturbed person whose daily life is filled with hostility and disrespect for itself and with those whom it shares its life, we are facing the guilt complex at its most deadly. For in its face is found the reflection of its inner willingness to destroy that which is the source of its illogical and unreasonable ire. Guilt is only released from the depths of our depressions when we willingly choose to accept our responsibility for refusing to enact into our life, all that our thoughtful ideas will asks of us. Arising from our choice to accept our guilt as our fault, we are then able to begin the process of venting our life's frustrations and bitterness to where we are released from our self imposed life's sentence of guilt, of our own making. The humble thought that inspires release of the victim of depression
from its cell, is only found when facing the thought that life without
fear can only be lived when choosing to take responsibility for all our
actions, whatever the consequences. ![]()
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