Worry

if you do it, don't worry about it.
if you worry about it, don't do it!

-Master Wu

Sensuality

"If we come home to our own sensuality and if we let go of all the awful, brutalizing notions of sin and guilt with which we were inflicted and we recognize and recover the lyrical innocence of our own bodies then we will come into the sacred within us.   It will also in another way relieve us of the crass, harsh brutality the modern idea of Eros, which is very voyeuristic and driven and lacks the textured gentleness of loving sensuality."  John O' Donahue

Divine Truth

"You need never be ashamed of anything that is within you when you're in the presence of God.  You need never feel inferior.  You need never feel guilty about anything you've done that you shouldn't do.  You need never feel guilty about what you haven't done that you should have done.  And you should never feel in any way judged by the loving tenderness and intimacy of the Divine Presence because any Divine Presence  that could judge or see  according to the smallness of our narrow ways of viewing wouldn't be worthy of the name of the Divine.  There's a graciousness in the Divine that is beyond all the smallness of our limitations."  John O' Donahue

Guilt

"I don't think being human has any place for guilt.   Contrition, yes.  Guilt, no.  Contrition means you are sorry and you're not gong to do it again and you start fresh.  All the damage you've done to yourself, put right.   Guilt means you on on belaboring and having emotions and beating your breasts and being ego-fixated.  Guilt is a trap.  People love guilt because they feel if they suffer enough guilt, they'll make up for what they've done.   Whereas, in fact, they're just sitting in a puddle and splashing.  In contrition, you move forward. It's over.  You are willing to forgo the pleasure of guilt."  Wendy Beckett

Karma

"People get into heavy sin and guilt trips, feeling that if things are going wrong, that they are being punished.  That is not the idea at all.   The idea of Karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.   To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give your everything you need to open further."  Pema Chondron

Guilt

"Simply pass when others attempt to have you choose guilt."  Wayne Dyer

Ego

"Your ego promotes a rather smooth flowing river of misery with fear, keeps you in a belief system that declares you are separate and special, prevents your from making the changes that will bring you into contact with your spiritual self, hands you guilt (the inner fear that you should pay a price for any and all mistakes), keeps you skeptical of your divinity, whispers that love is a high ideal loaded with danger.   It wants you not to give too much love because you may be taken advantage of.   All of these ideas keep you in a state of fear about giving and receiving love, which is enough to keep you under its influence."  Wayne Dyer

Guilt and Fear...the Lie

"People were given to believe that they were naturally bad and sinful.   They let this toxic idea into their minds and it gradually poisoned their whole way of seeing themselves.   Sin was in every corner and probable damnation waited at the end of the road.   People were drafted into blasphame against their own nature.  You could not let yourself go.   Any longing to claim your nature or pursue your wildness would lead to ruin.   This corrupted the innocence of people's sensual lives and broke the fluency of their souls.   Rather than walk the path with the encouraging companionship of your protecting angel beside you and the passionate creativity of the Holy Spirit at your deepest core you were trapped between guilt and fear."   John O' Donahue