"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Chinese Proverb

Here are a few words each one of us need to think and reflect upon,

Do you carry feelings of guilt about something you did–or failed to do–in the past? 

This much is certain: you acted according to your level of consciousness or rather 

unconsciousness at that time. If you had been more aware, more conscious, you 

would have acted differently. 

Guilt is another attempt by the ego to create an identity, a sense of self. To the ego, 

it doesn’t matter whether that self is positive or negative. What you did or failed to 

do was a manifestation of unconsciousness–human unconsciousness. The ego, 

however, personalizes it and says, “I did that,” and so you carry a mental image of 

yourself as “bad." 

Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts 

on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all 

guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary 

stage that we are now growing out of? 

Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they know not what they do,” also apply to 

yourself. 

- by Eckhart Tolle 

(Stillness Speaks)