Lesson 39 of ACIM.
We are so accustomed to guilt. Western culture taught it with a vengence. As children we were told that God was angry with us for not obeying him, we were taught by Christendom that guilt would lead us to God, that if we felt it for hours on end, if we wallowed in it for days, months and years, that God would have pity on us in the end. The idea of penance to minimize the guilt has made many an ego simply hurt themselves.
Holiness is the opposite of Guilt.
We are so accustomed to guilt. Western culture taught it with a vengence. As children we were told that God was angry with us for not obeying him, we were taught by Christendom that guilt would lead us to God, that if we felt it for hours on end, if we wallowed in it for days, months and years, that God would have pity on us in the end. The idea of penance to minimize the guilt has made many an ego simply hurt themselves.
Holiness is the opposite of Guilt.