Mareh Makom

Guilt

• Guilt: the indelible stain – a journey into the moral psyche
  Can you really wash your hands of a wrong once done?
  all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
• Guilt: The hidden prison within ourselves
  Is the guilt we feel a punishment for an action, or is the action itself merely a justification for guilt that was already there?
  even though he had done nothing wrong, one morning he was arrested
• Guilt: the internal brake that saves civilization from a heavy price
  Is guilt the illness of civilization, or its only cure?
  The price we pay for the advancement of civilization is the loss of happiness as a result of the increase in the sense of guilt.
• Guilt: the constant shadow of freedom and the real price of being human
  Is guilt proof of our freedom, or a burden that prevents us from being truly free?
  Man is condemned to be free... because from the moment he is thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
• Guilt: between the fall and freedom—how brokenness becomes the foundation of holiness
  Is our self-confidence the very thing that trips us up?
  Indeed, when a person possesses a trait that leans toward moral decline, yet trusts in his heart that he will always walk an upright path, he may thereby be led to guilt.