A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.
Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.
Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.
Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.