Advice from the Spirit

“Is there a message for the group?”
“Do not reproach yourselves needlessly. Guilt will not lighten your burden; it will only make it heavier. Guilt is not repentance and it is not regret. For where there is repentance, there is an understanding of what was done, an understanding of the lesson learned, and a desire to rise and move forward.
What is guilt? It is mere self-pity. Without accurate conclusions and without a lesson taken. Ineffectual. That is why you waste your energy in vain. That is why this energy eats away at you, pulling you down and preventing your step from being made.
Approach this through awareness, through understanding the importance of the lesson taken, through accepting its conclusions, whatever they may seem. For the conclusions of a lesson, like the lesson itself, are not judged by you.”