Guilt versus Compassion
by Sylvia Browne
 I'm
so sick and tired of guilt. The problem we have is to find something else in
place of guilt. So many times with my clients, I've seen that if you remove
guilt, they walk around empty. They don't know what to do without it. They want
to fill it up with something. It's sort of like taking off a pair of tight shoes
that you've worn for so long, and realizing that you can actually walk without
pain.
Put the word compassion in the place of guilt.
Compassion means "caring and understanding." It's not pity or empathy. It means,
"I care by choice." You're not pulled down by a feeling of "I have to . . ."
As you probably know, the Essenes were Gnostics. The Essenes
authored the Dead Sea Scrolls. Most theologians now say that these scrolls were
definitely part of the original Bible, but church officials eradicated and ruled
them out over time. In A.D. 325, during the First Council of Nicaea, they
eliminated everything that had to do with reincarnation and eradicated the
Gnostic movement. The Bible, as we now know it, is not the full version of the
Bible.
There was one passage that struck me as reflecting our
philosophy so much: "An edict went out amongst the Essenes [later the Gnostics]
that stated, 'Stop holding on. Quit having the stubbornness of guilt.'"
It really struck me how tenacious guilt is. We have to
discern if we're on the right path, which means being in tune with God's will.
You're the experiencing part of God feeding data back to the Divine. We have to
discern what is righteous guilt, what is stubborn guilt, and what is inane
guilt. If the motive, the heart, and the emotions are pure, they will weigh
strongly in our defense.
Guilt is a killer -- no doubt about it. Guilt causes cancer and
breaks up families; it can make you crazy and make your soul weigh heavily. Now,
we're a guilt-programmed society. We get it in our religious structures.
Churches have been the biggest harbingers of guilt. Sometimes I just wonder if
the guilt and negativity hasn't become its own Antichrist. It's something to
think about.
Think about the fact that we have guilt about our children,
and why do we? We're programmed socially, economically, and culturally to think
that whatever goes wrong is our fault. No. You see, these entities come to us
with their own written charts that they must fulfill. How much control do we
really have over it? Very little.
Because you're human, you rant and rave over the fact that
you have a kid who happens to be rotten, or your parents are driving you crazy.
Let's take leave of all this screaming and yelling and hollering. If someone is
sitting in front of me and I walk over and smack that person, I should
have guilt, because that person hasn't done one single thing to hurt me. I
should have guilt for that. See what I mean? That is an overt action against
someone who hasn't done one singular thing to me in my life.
But let's say that someone comes up and hurts you, and you
turn around and say to them, "Stop." Or you push them away with justifiable
anger. You have so much guilt over things that you have no control over. Why?
Because somebody told you that you were not a good enough mother, spouse, or
child.
So you don't like your mother -- well, maybe no one does; maybe
she just isn't likable. Did you ever think of that? So you think your kid is
rotten -- that may very well be the consensus of 70 other people. Why do you have
guilt? Do you think that because this entity came through you or you married
this person, it's your responsibility forever and ever to take up that crucible?
Let me tell you from my own experience, my friends. In one
twinkling of an eye, because of a belief, it can be taken away. How do you stand
with that? You stand tall. Overall this is only God, and the way we serve Him.
I would never ask you to do anything I haven't lived through
and done. When you make that commitment to God, you can have it all. He may let
it drop away or it may be taken, but what has anyone ever taken from you? Make
sure that when all things are taken, you don't stubbornly hold on to this guilt.
We hold on to that more tenaciously than we do any material thing.
Once I helped this woman's whole family: Her mother got off
alcohol, and her brother got off drugs. Afterwards, she said to me, "Now what am
I supposed to do?" She wanted to carry the responsibility and guilt for
their limitations.
We don't like to let go of our old, familiar dragons. They
breathe fire at night, and haunt our beds. We say, "Oh, there you are. I know
you're there." Our anxieties and our illnesses are these feelings of guilt.
Jesus was trying to rid us of this. Even the sacrament of baptism was originally
meant to symbolically wash away what has gone on before in your past lives.
Please let go, and let your soul stand with dignity. How dare
you not know that you're a spark of the Divine?
You're a spark of the Divine Mother and Father God. You're a
beautiful, perfect, infinite soul. Don't let the world get you. Don't let the
world put that on you. Walk above all of this. The sky won't fall in on you.
You may fall in on you, but God's love, which is constant forever, will keep
on pulling you out if you stick to your belief.
This
article is excerpted from:
 The Nature of Good
and Evil
by Sylvia Browne.
Reprinted
with permission of the publisher Hay House Inc.,
www.hayhouse.com
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