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Remorse is a concept that is intimately associated with ideas of
morality and sin, right and wrong, success and failure, or good
and bad. This book considers remorse from the point of view that
it is the tangent point between this view of ourselves and our
world as dividided, and a larger view in which change instead
proceeds from an undivided ground. Ordinarily remorse - or more
accurately, guilt or shame - perpetuates a sense of division or
separation which in turn creates rigidity. In an environment of
rigidity change is limited. True remorse, however, provides a
shock to the structure of separation, thereby creating an
opening and an opportunity for something completely new to
happen. |