X. RELEASE FROM GUILT, P 3
3 In any union with a brother in which you seek to lay your guilt upon him, or share it with him or perceive his own, you will feel guilty. Nor will you find satisfaction and peace with him, because your union with him is not real. You will see guilt in that relationship because you put it there. It is inevitable that those who suffer guilt will attempt to displace it, because they do believe in it. Yet though they suffer, they will not look within and let it go. They cannot know they love, and cannot understand what loving is. Their main concern is to perceive the source of guilt outside themselves, beyond their own control.
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If I want to love and feel loved, I must let go of the idea of guilt. Holding onto guilt precludes love. Seeing guilt in someone prevents true union with that one. In fact, seeing guilt outside myself increases my belief that I am guilty. I remind myself frequently how this works. I believe in guilt and this belief stems from the idea that I separated myself from God. I don’t want to acknowledge this unconscious guilt, so I project it onto others in the mistaken belief that if I see it outside myself then it is not in me. As long as it is outside of me I don’t have to do anything about it. It seems to be someone else’s problem.
There is only one way to deal with this self-perpetuating situation. I must break the cycle by taking responsibility for the guilt I see. As I take responsibility for the guilt I see, The Holy Spirit helps me to see differently. I have done this and though I am still working on this, I have experienced a lot of success. It is actually very simple. I am innocent and so is everyone else. There! No guilt! God did not create guilt so guilt does not exist. God created us innocent and so we are innocent. Again, no guilt!
It only feels difficult because we tend to get involved in the stories that represent the guilt we believe in. The stories seem to prove guilt, but that is backwards. The belief in guilt came first, then the stories are projected outward. Of course the stories seem to prove guilt, they were made for that purpose. (L 325: From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own.) Understanding that guilt was in the mind and then given form as a guilt story, we can then use the story to undo the belief in guilt.
I’ve talked about the relationship problems I had at work before I retired. I kept seeing my boss and my office manager as guilty. They did things that seemed to prove they were guilty. But eventually, I was able to look away from the story and focus on the lesson it presented. I saw that believing in guilt was making everything worse, and that in doing so I was robbing myself of love and peace.
So I asked the Holy Spirit to show me another way to see this. I had to turn it over to Him several times before I was willing to leave it with Him, but eventually, everything changed. I began to see them as innocent and I began to love them. It was actually amazing to me. The situation I had used to prove their guilt suddenly proved their innocence. As I let go of the idea they were guilty, I felt less guilt within myself. Now I don’t believe in guilt as much as I did before.
The stories are helpful in that they show us the effects of our beliefs, and offer us the opportunity to ask for correction. But they are not the focal point. The guilt came first, and then a story of that guilt was projected. (L 15: My thoughts are images I have made) It is the belief in guilt itself that we will eventually let go of. And every time we release one of our images, accept that it is just a false image, and allow the Holy Spirit to correct our thoughts, we come closer to letting go of the belief in guilt. One day we will make only beautiful, peaceful images because there will be no guilt in our mind.
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