The concept that resolving and changing lifetime patterns of thinking and feeling is extremely difficult, if not impossible, is supported by what we have observed in the world around us. People have seemed to run on automatic pilot their whole lifetime, their behavior controlled by inner programs set in place twenty, thirty, or forty years earlier. One resistance to exploring what fears might be creating our outer conditions is that we may fear our own blame. To admit that we create our external conditions seems to imply that we are to blame for any mistakes we made. It is a misinterpretation to think that because we are totally responsible for the creation of our lives that we are therefore to blame for the errors we have made.
Blame is a value judgment against our choices, implying sin and guilt which implies punishment.
However, error implies correction without judgment, which implies a process of learning and teaching. Though we are responsible for, and the creators of, our errors, we are not to blame for them. We have not sinned and we do not need to be punished. We have only made the error of choosing fear instead of love. This requires recognition and correction.