I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.
Guilt is the next best thing to being there.
Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson. My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know. Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking. It is well for the unfortunate to be reassigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement Please read our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer .