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If
you find yourself making dark comparisons between you now
and you then, or you and another person, you are out of touch
with Truth. When you follow this line of thought you are in the ego-mind’s venue of
self-destruction. The Truth of who you are cannot be judged or evaluated.
Misguided
parts of you think you should be kept out of harm’s way (in
the external world) at all cost. These aspects punish you for
the mistakes you have made (in their eyes) and maybe in the eyes of the world. You feel that if you beat yourself up enough, you
will have done the penance needed to pay for past mistakes.
Depression
paralyzes you and stops self-expression as a
way to prevent
future catastrophes your ego insists you will inevitably create.
It keeps you from the joy-filled futures you supposedly don’t deserve.
Now
while you may feel there is hell to pay for whatever you think
you have done, we say there is more to learn and love about yourself. That you took
risks at all, that you attempted to find a grander horizon, that
you endeavored to love another, that you wished to help another
soul in his extremity—these are also admirable characteristics
of the same person, the same ‘mistake.’
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