I find it useful to separate guilt into two…

I find it useful to separate guilt into two categories: guilt for when we actually do something truly bad and guilt for when we haven't done anything objectively bad but we feel like we have or someone told us we have for example, guilt we feel for having a particular need, preference, thought, or emotion. Knowing which of those two types of guilt we are experiencing is the first challenge. We work with each kind of guilt in a different way.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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