Shame

Shame is a lie. Shame is a weak attempt to grasp and hold souls. It’s a social system designed to make people willing to be pliable, and it has been very, very successful. Shame creates its own defeat, because it is an inherently flawed system. Shame enough of the little people and rather than having more compliant people, you wind up with a growing number of angry people. But we don’t have to be angry people to deal with shame in a sweeping way. We don’t have to lose our minds to regain our hearts.

You can give only what you have. If you have shame, you will give it. If you have freedom, you will give it. If you are focused on genuine spiritual freedom, you won’t have any time or energy to shame another. It’s a big spiritual world out there, much too much to experience to be bothered with these petty inherited games like who’s fault it is that you aren’t having a life right now.

“Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one’s status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one’s inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.” Lao Tzu (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote “Tao Te Ching” (also “The Book of the Way”). 600 BC-531 BC)