I love his version of Autumn leaves.
In dark times people basically sold their soul to survive. Dark times were deeply miserable times when people were used, abused, enslaved, and there was absolutely no hope at all in the people’s eyes.
In modern dark times the people are fed with Positives, glowing lights of hope, and like people at parties getting drunk and drugged, they think that they are actually happy. Yet they all return to gods that are false and do them no good, to jobs that most of them, about 99% hate, are all in dept with cars, houses, loans and so on, and they are groomed to smile, have hope, be aware of what good they are to the society that has them trapped, seduced, hungering for the pleasures of the mind and body.
But in this type of slavery, most have no idea that they are in fact slaves.
As long as they can find some sort of life that makes them feel that it is all worth it, they smile through it, even as they bury their family members, and people who they love who die of diseases, robbed of a full life, we are taught that all that bad, is bad luck, fate, and just how it is, and the people in the masses simply slave ever onwards for their owners, who the people have no idea that they are owned.
The people, in mass, believe that they are not slaves while they are in fact slaves, and they believe that they are free, when in fact they are not free.
The people in mass, trust their owners totally, they have been taught in a way to accept the picture of slavery that was sold to their minds as freedom.
One of the biggest mistakes is that today, a world in sin, all have sinned, is that they all assume that Sodom and Gomorrah are like mass orgies all day and night, reality is, that they are like society today.
Using the Bissell cleaner with the hoover, the trouble is, is that the instructions are for a certain amount of cleaner that the Bissell cleaner uses and it has a measuring cup, but no measuring cup with the Bissell cleaner fluid. Both the Hoover and the Bissell use hot water, not boiling water, but you can use hot water.
Vacuumed and Hoover PowerScrubbed the Hall and the computer room and a big mat in the Kitchen, and they all smell lovely. The cleaning fluid is more expensive than the ones from New World and Countdown, but more bubbly, and seem to do just as well. But the Hall and room I just vacuumed and cleaned, were vacuumed and cleaned about two weeks ago and the water was still very dirty, but not as dirty as the first time. I imagine that the carpets and mats need a few cleanings before they get clean.
The most noticeable thing that happens is that the carpets and mats are more fluffy once the Hoover Powerscrub has done its work on them.
The carpet in the computer room is old, I have no idea where I got it, or how old it is, but after one deep clean it came out amazing, smells so nice and looks very clean.
One of the things that the Jehovah Witnesses promise to the people is that they will be a part of the special group that God will be on The Kingdom, and they are heavy on The Kingdom, being God’s special people, not calling God, God, and so on Thus, they created rules, and they get weakened people who have suffered, struggled, deeply regret their pasts and promise them full pardons from God, full forgiveness, God’s total Love and a place in the New Kingdom that is to come.
This is all fantasy. But to those who are desperate to be understood, forgiven and loved, this appears to be heaven on earth with God’s great approval, and thus they don’t need to apologise to anyone on Earth for the evil or bad things that they did to them, all they need to do is become submissive Jehovah Witnesses – this is why it is called a cult, because all it offers is fake, and what it gains is a lot of wealthy people at the top, same as the Catholics, same as the Mormons/Latte Day Saints, and so on.
As submissive easily led people they marry in to the church to people and this keeps the church strong. But, like all other religions, they still have convictions of abusing women, using religion for sex and slavery purposes, and sexual abuse of children.
There is not a religion on the planet today that follows and supports the real Living God, nay not one.
If you think that you are in one of these groups and that they are The Truth, then you have been carefully and successfully seduced in to believing the lies that the church is the truth and that you don’t need to repent, or fix what you have done in the past, and you actually become totally useless to God, but are convinced in working for the religion, being faithful to the doctrines, that you are forgiven.
You can’t go on, thinking nothing’s wrong, but now
Who’s gonna drive you home tonight? Hoh-oh-oh
You know you can’t go on thinking nothing’s wrong
Who’s gonna drive you home tonight?
There is a particular thing that someone I know does, that he does not know that I know that he does it, and sometimes when he does not want me to think that he is around or been at a certain place I can tell he has by this particular act that he does, that is controlled by his ego.
When people are controlled by pride and ego they do things that make them feel good, like these actions “feed their ego”, such as a thin person going shopping with an overweight person to make the thin person feel good about her size, and then deliberately showing up the overweight or chubby person by trying on dresses in a fashionable clothing store.
Or a tall person working with a shorter person and deliberately putting things up high so that the shorter person will have to ask for help getting stuff down, and this feeds the ego of the tall person and makes the short person more submissive to the taller person in the taller persons mind.
Its a form of gaslighting as well.
People who get ego feeds can be absolutely relied on for doing stuff that exposes their lies and sneakiness, you just got to know where their ego-feed-weakness is. Once you know what makes them feel better than you or other people, then you can be sure that the person who desires the ego-feed will always do what makes them feel better. Its like them giving themselves a pat on the back each time they feed their own ego. Narcissists like this behaviour particularly because they assume that the victim that they live with is lower than the Narcissist in intelligence, thus any positive words from the victim are never taken seriously, as they feel that compliments from an idiot don’t count for the Narcissist, thus they prefer to boost their own ego in ways that make them feel that they are obviously (in their own childish insecure minds) superior, even if they don’t say it, they feel it, and that’s enough for the Narcissist.
But as the Narcissist can make the towels look messy and accuse the victim of not straightening them out, the victim can also make the towels messy or pictures angled to see if the Narcissist is hiding in the house or has been home during the day while the Narcissist is at work, if the Narcissist has a thing about straightening everything or cleaning up messes, or spills, or wiping things down, or closing their own bedroom door and so on.
If the victim, or someone feeling suspicious, suspects something is up, then he or she can set things up to see if the other person is being sneaky.
When I do a Dr Joe stretching video, I turn off the sound because she talks so much. She is very informed and good at what she does, but she just doesn’t stop talking. And I found all that talking distracting. I am trying to do her stretches to help with my shoulder pain.
I was reading about God Only Knows on Wikipedia and noted how many people made comments of how the song was musically made, the styles, keys, and so on, and some complex discussions of the song, and then it occurred to me that Brian got a F in music studies for “Surfin” in High School.
People who are being abused always think that it is happening to other people other than themselves until it destroys them.
Cognitive Dissonance in Narcissistic Abuse: A Snapshot
A simplistic, condensed example in a toxic relationship: an abuser professes love and divines a marriage date with their partner. The partner is courted, romanced, and ultimately falls in love with the abuser, not knowing that the abuser has ulterior motives (i.e., not staying in the relationship). The partner envisions wedding details and enjoys the courtship, flowers, and being placed on a pedestal. The abuser then suddenly makes a comment denying they said anything about getting married. They go on to say the partner is “crazy” for thinking that. Blame is then projected upon the partner, and the partner is dizzy with confusion, recalling that, indeed, their significant other did discuss wedding bells and a future together.
The partner then experiences a state of cognitive dissonance—a hazy unreality of confusion. Such emotional abuse renders the target confused and reeling with heartache that the pace of the relationship has slammed to an abrupt halt, in addition to feelings of betrayal and being blamed.
Gaslighting: Another Insidious Form of Narcissistic Cognitive Dissonance
Another common tactic of emotional abuse employed by individuals with narcissistic issues is “gaslighting.” This term was coined after a movie titled Gaslight (1944) in which a form of psychological abuse resulting in cognitive dissonance occurred for the main character, played by Ingrid Bergman. The result of gaslighting is that the target of abuse doubts their own reality of the situation because the abuser is trying to confuse and disorient the target in order to maintain power and control, all at the cost of the emotional well-being of the target.
Another example of gaslighting in the movies would be the Julia Roberts character as the target of abuse in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991). In her situation, her abuser would appear as a stalker in her house by straightening out the bath towels. Roberts’ character knew that her partner was particular about cleanliness and order, so when she thought she was alone in the house, she found out she was not by seeing straightened bath towels arranged eerily in order. This gaslighting resulted in Roberts’ character doubting her reality and feeling a state of psychological terror. In circumstances where emotional abuse occurs outside of Hollywood films, often the “gaslighting” is verbal or emotional, placing the target of abuse in a state of perpetual confusion.
Using Validation to Diffuse Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is diffused and reduced when the survivor of narcissistic abuse is able to receive validation and confirmation of the reality of their circumstances. Narrating the story can take place verbally in psychotherapy sessions and/or via the use of journaling exercises. Although this is just the beginning of the healing process, mastering the trauma associated with narcissistic abuse ensues when the target has unconditional, positive regard, validation for their experience, psychoeducation about the nature of narcissistic abuse recovery, and empowerment as they move through the emotions associated with grief/trauma recovery.
Being able to vocalize or write about the particulars of the experience releases the trauma and enables the survivor to reduce cognitive dissonance and continue with the healing work. Talking to a licensed, compassionate therapist can be one helpful step in moving toward healing.
There are many more steps in the healing process, but working through cognitive dissonance is a key, initial component in reducing trauma and anxiety in survivors of emotional abuse.
https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/unreality-check-cognitive-dissonance-in-narcissistic-abuse-1007144
Matthew Chapter 6, verse 24:
No human can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
You must choose between God and the world. God’s teaching and will for your life must come before all things.
The Word of God must come before parents opinions, the laws of the world, everything. God before all things, and only then when you trust God fully will you finally get close enough to God to know His will for your life.
One of the saddest times of our lives is the discovery that those who always said that they had our back protected turn on us and attack when life is at one of its lowest points for us. They attack when they think that they are guaranteed to win, but they don’t know your true courage, your commitment to right, and your desire for better things. They don’t know that you will stand up strong and fight for justice.
These people are the one’s that like us and tell us that they love us but it is only while we are of use to them. I know it hurts, and hurts a lot to find out such things but in reality their true identity is a blessing in disguise because we are no longer in their hands and are no longer being used by them.
Sometimes in life we will find the foundation ripped out from under us, the foundation that we thought was safe and secure, and from this we find that we really have few options. One, the most important is to rely on ourself and to have faith in God for a good outcome even though many are against us.
It is at times like this that we find who we really need, and who our real friends are. Fakes are often very convincing, but when they stand to suffer, lose something, or have to do the hard yards they can become exposed for who they really are. Keep your mind and eyes open, follow your instincts, pray for guidance..
When “friends and family” turn on you, cry your tears, put away your fears, and go where you know that you will find true companionship, love and friendship that will last your lifetime.
The reason for these experiences is to show us how to detect good and bad people, and to know who we can trust and who will turn on us. Good hearts get hurt, accept that, and shake the dust off your feet and move on. You have become a more knowledgable, wise person. Please don’t forget your lessons, the results and what you have learned.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
2018.
When I think of how I would answer the question, the following behaviours come to mind:
* Creating: Writing, drawing, painting (though I’m not good at it), playing music (though I’m not especially good at that, either). For others, it might be inventing something, building a business, coming up with a clever marketing campaign, forming a non-profit.
* Relating: It’s not “family” that makes life worth living, I think, but the relationships we create with members of our family, and the way we maintain and build those relationships. Same goes for friends, love, business partners, students, and everyone else.
* Helping: Being able to lend a hand to people in need – however drastic or trivial that need may be – strikes me as an important part of life.
* Realizing: Making, working towards, and achieving goals, no matter what those goals are.
* Playing: Maybe this is a kind of “relating”, but then, play can be a solo affair as well. Letting go of restraints, imagining new possibilities, testing yourself against others or against yourself, finding humor and joy.
* Growing: Learning new things, improving my knowledge and ability in the things I’ve already learned.
Those seem satisfying answers to me – they strike deeper into what it is I want for myself, what makes it worthwhile to get up in the morning.
What about you? What makes your life worth living?
Do you feel like I’m headed down the wrong path here?
How would you answer the question, “What makes life worth living?”
– Dustin Wax.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. – Lord Byron.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus.
As a responsible citizen of the world, it is your duty and the duty of each of us to contribute what we can during the flash of light called Time, which exists as one moment following another while we are here, together, alive.
Anyone who feels s/he is ‘extra baggage’ and using resources and not enjoying her or his life, should NEVER end it.
Instead, that feeling of unhappiness is the whisper in your ear, the pinch of pain needed to motivate you to DO SOMETHING ELSE in life besides whatever it is you are doing now that makes you so unhappy.
Unhappiness and frustration, disappointment and pain, are there for a reason. They are there to tell us it is time to change.
What will you do?
Consider what your strengths are. If you are physically healthy and capable please go to an area ravaged by earthquake, tornado or poverty, and contribute what you can to others. Get trained by The Red Cross in lifesaving techniques, setting up resources after devastation — and make your life the ripple in the pond which spreads blessings and gives value instead of consuming value.
– American Red Cross.
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company … a church … a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude … I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you … we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
– Charles Swindle.
People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that’s the really crazy thing. – Amy Grant.
One of the most important things about life to all of us is that our core needs are met.
Societies based on materialism focus on all ways on materialistic growth and development in the community. Materialism does not meet the needs of the soul.
“Things”are not worth living for. People are worth living for. Living for the greater good of all should be inspired within is all and taught in all forms of education.
Breathable health oxygen, healthy food, clean healthy water, shelter and sleep are basic physical needs that help us function well.
Max-Neef classifies the fundamental human needs as:
Subsistence – protection – affection – understanding – participation – leisure – creation – identity – freedom.
Based on more than 30 years of psychological counseling and pastoral care, Howard Clinebell believes that humans have seven spiritual hungers in common:
* All people need to experience regularly the healing and empowerment of love – from others, self, and an ultimate source.
* Everyone needs to experience renewing times of transcendence – moments that expand us beyond the immediate sensory spheres.
* Everybody needs vital beliefs that give some sense of meaning and hope the midst of losses, tragedies, and failures.
* Every person needs to have values, priorities, and life commitments – usually centered in issues of justice, integrity, and love – that guide us in personally and socially responsible living.
* Each human being needs to discover and develop their inner wisdom, creativity and love of their unique transpersonal/spiritual self.
* All people need a deepening awareness of oneness with other people and with the natural world, the wonderful web of all living things.
* Every human being needs spiritual resources to help heal the painful wounds of grief, guilt, resentment, unforgiveness, self-rejection, and shame. We also need spiritual resources to deepen our experiences of trust, self-esteem, hope, joy and love of life.
Clinebell feels that everybody must pay attention to these needs to feel whole and fulfilled, making spirituality central to human well-being (Clinebell, 1992).
We all need to find our own reason to live, and that could take many years to discover, or we may not ever make that discovery but we will have a life that felt worth living.
We need Love, we would like to be Understood, it would be nice to be Heard, people should Respect Us enough to give us a chance to try to live “our own way” and not make fun of us when we want to follow our own instinctive feelings and creative imagination.
Parents and teenagers need to note that society creates many divides which create a invisible wall between them. Music, attitudes, fads, fashion, technology, language (slang etc), peer pressure and pride can cause the parents/teenagers relationship to suffer enough for the teenagers to seek relationships, guidance and entertainment elsewhere.
If both parents and teenagers are always aware of this they can prepare for it and adjust their lives and actions accordingly to re-establish the relationship if need be. Together families and communities can survive for the greater good of all.
One of the joys of life is communities, the people, working together to make life better for each other – that is the work of love.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
April 10, 2016 at 11:49 AM.
If we keep the past a memory and learn from it, then it stays in its place and we grow from here, we become stronger and more able to deal with life. If we go back to the past then that is who we will be, who we once were and the past will be us once more and not a memory as it should be. Reject those past temptations. Aim for a new positive future that has hope in it, where you dreams and desires can come true.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
June 28, 2011.
Height and short people:
Yesterday I was getting groceries and I lost the woman I was getting groceries with, she was somewhere in the aisles. My friend Frans (store security), who is about 6 feet, 4 inches high, said to me while laughing that she should grow taller sand that I should as well, then he easily pointed her out because he could see her and I couldn’t. 
She is a short blonde, not so easy to find in a taller crowd.
My friend, Igor and Frans, who are both taller than me, and I were talking about height and they were kidding me because I am rather short.
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But I remember a friend at the Kinlieth Paper Mill who used to give me a hard time about me being short and he being taller. He was always teasing me about my height.
Then one day I walked under a steal beam which just touched the top of my hair, and he walked face first into it hurting his forehead, and from that day on if he mentioned my height I would mention that short people do have some advantages over tall people
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
2019.
Coping in Life has a lot to do with accepting what people exist in the world and not letting them get us down, or overpower us.
For example:
There will always be confused, upset people, and there will always be narcissists, money lovers, prideful, greedy, and dysfunctional, toxic people, because they make up a lot of the society we have today.
For us to cope and function in a positive manner we need to “not take in” other peoples negative characters, emotions and feelings, meaning that it is wise that we don’t react to the problems other people have, even if they try to force you to react, and instead let their negative emotional state go over you and react in a mature stable way.
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There is great personal power in maturity. If we understand that other people are suffering, and that at least they think that they have a good reason for acting as they do, then we can let their negative emotions and insults bounce off us without us feeling insecure etc.
We become winners when we don’t react.
If we allow people to make us feel insecure, guilty, angry, we are giving them the power to control our life and in doing so they can gain control of us by manipulating us to agree or do as they wish.
Power is in not immediately reacting to other people’s negative behaviours, power is putting our mind into “Observing, Thinking, and Careful Thought Mode” while considering all that is being said regardless of the mood other people are in.
In doing so we observe, we don’t get offended, we don’t cower at their rage or anger, insults or pushiness, we listen a lot, taking it in and chewing over what is going on in our minds and letting our own ideas, thoughts and questions come forth peacefully and naturally.
The result is that we stay mature and calm and we deal with the other person in a manner in which they are not prepared to handle and we get our views across in a clear precise way – to onlookers we come across as worthy, stable, and someone they want to be around and listen to because we are not overpowering, we are not a bully. We are calm and we have strong worthy mature ideas and present ourselves in a manner that makes them have faith in us. Confidence comes with a mature attitude.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
2019.
I had a terrible fear of speaking in public, and also I had a great fear of expressing my feelings publicly, especially my opinions, because of how I was treated as a child. I was scared of making a fool of myself, of people laughing at me, of being told to shut up, or being told that I was a fool, useless and stupid.
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To overcome this I had to face false criticisms, abuse, laughter and other people’s opinions of me, but the rewards are far greater than fears of speaking out.
People in the beginning saw me as my old character, easy to overcome, easy to shut up, and easy to question by putting him down and laughing at him.
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I learned, at the complete risk of making a fool of myself, to speak out and try to say at least one thing that was from my own thoughts when with people, until I got more used to doing this. At meetings I spoke and sometimes was laughed at, but as time went by people realised that I was not going to stop saying my piece, voicing my ideas, thoughts and opinions, and they became used to it and had no choice but to accept what I had to say and to agree that something I said was the answers to the questions that were bothering them.
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What I do now is stay quiet in meetings. I don’t tend to back up and support anyone at the meeting until I find out where I can add to the situation in a positive progressive way that hopefully will solve a problem and help us all move forward. I speak when I think that I have something worth saying, and even if the others disagree I continue to speak and either come up with something new or say what I originally said because I realize that some people have so many issues that they lack a clear understanding until it is told to them more than a few times and all of a sudden they see the light.
The only way to overcome fears is to face them. And of course facing a fear is going to be an uncomfortable moment, struggle and anxiety, but the results are becoming comfortable with the situation, becoming more confident each time, and realising that irrational fears only existed in the mind.
You were not born to be hidden under a roof, you were born to use your talents and gifts to help reach out to others and to make a positive difference to your community and in other people’s lives, you were born to shine in the most humble and beautiful, useful way, for all to see and to be grateful for.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
2019.
Every rejections, every disappointment, has led you here, to this moment – there was and is still a reason, and upon taking the correct courageous steps forward past your adversaries you will be on the path to your God-Given Destiny, the one that you were born for.
Satan has dressed up your enemies in nice (character) clothing so that they will appear your friends and faithful to your cause.
Satan knows that your eyes, your pleasures, your emotional turmoil has you making materialistic choices of very little value and which you forget about once you have them, its all in the plan to build up your faith and confidence in the evil plan until you cannot tell the difference between God and evil.
Before you found God you partook in indecent, immoral, unjust activities, and to you these were fun, good, decent and you had no issues with them being in your life, and that was because Evil had convinced you that evil practices are good.
Since you found God, has there been people who have convinced you to be with people who taught you evil yet called it good?
Logic would have us look to Wisdom to seek the Truth and in that process we see, feel and understand that those who led us astray before will lead us astray once more, and ever so onwards, until we eventually wake up one day doing the things that God taught us not to do, and we will like it, we will rejoice in the evil in our lives and then we will tell our own childrne, the ones that God entrusted us with, that evil is good, to enjoy, to play in the filth yet see it as good, and they too will be replica’s of us, dirty, filthy, evil and fake.
God will always pick up the pieces, but it would seem common sense that we were not so foolish that we drove ourselves to disaster before it happens laughing, joking and being plastic and fake as we were before.
When you first find God, do not entertain evil suggestions, or the weaknesses of pleasures of the body, its time to put away childish things, vain thoughts, feeding the ego, and following God in truth and life.
mANY THINGS CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD UNTIL THEY ARE DONE, THEN WHAT WE DOUBTED BECOMES REAL AND WHAT WE WERE AFRAID OF BECOMESFAKE, AND FINALLY WE REALIZED THAT OUR OWN WORST ENEMY WAS OURSELF AS WE WERE AVOIDED OUR OWN HEALING.
You Must At least Try,
if you don’t
You will hate Yourself!.
So try!
Miracles are ours for the seeing.–-Taking time to see and appreciate the miraculous is guaranteed to bring a smile to our souls and happiness to our hearts… Miracles happen all around us everyday. So often in fact that we routinely overlook them in the moment. Sometimes the miracles around us are as simple as a bud bursting into bloom…
– Nevele Alimorong Martinez.February 22, 2011.
“If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it, only with LOVE… share some today…”
– Prince Bob-Manuel C. Okocha. February 21, 2011.
Originally written by me for Valentines Day, 2011.
In your eyes I see my future, my desires, my dreams, my children, my new family – in you is so much, so deep, so pure and you are so willing to fill the empty gap in my soul, willing to be mine for evermore…
At my side I feel your presence like a deep enchanting breeze surrounding me, encasing me with the power of your well intended love.
To touch you makes me feel good, to hold you gives my life new meaning, to be with you gives me comfort and joy. You bring out the best in me with your support and encouragements, and give my life new meaning, new hope.
I have never known a friend like you, I have never known that love could be this good, so intoxicating and yet so satisfying, honest and true.
You give me pleasure deep in my soul. When you leave I feel lost, when you return I feel wanted.
The greatest blessing of all is that you want me with all my failings, with all my mistakes, with all my faults, even on my bad days. I have no words for the grateful feeling in my heart for you have rescued me from loneliness, boredom and a life with no real heartfelt purpose.
I now know that to be married to my soul-partner is to be given a new lease on life, a new start, opportunities and a chance for the two of us to start creating our own garden of Eden with our new home.
Your presence caresses my soul with joy and pleasure. I look for you in the crowds. I yearn to hear your voice. I am willing and wanting to give you the best years of my life, my best efforts, my unconditional love with my whole heart behind the effort.
You, to me, are everything, for without you I feel like I am nothing just an ordinary guy. You are the one who changed everything, and I know that God gave you especially to me. Life doesn’t get better than you and me, together!
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
“Sometimes the cure is a clean conscience”.
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“Have a clear conscience”: Also, have a clean conscience .
Feel free of guilt or responsibility.
For example, I have a clear conscience—I did all I could to help.
This idiom is also put as one’s conscience is
clear or clean, as in His conscience is clean about telling the whole story.
The adjective clearhas been used in the sense of “innocent” since about1400;
clean was so used from about 1300. – Dictionary com.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook. 2019.
People can tell us that we have a clean conscience and to get on with life.
We can lie to ourselves and say the same. But words are cheap and have no value if they are a lie, a cover up, fake, etc.
The soul will still suffer for the wrongs we have done and not made right, and if apologies etc are not made. This suffering of guilt affects our mind, soul, and physical health.
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The reason we feel guilt, anxiety and depression about such matters is that deep within ourselves, behind the fake walls of pretence, is a very sorrowful heart that wants to do the right thing.
The guilt is our own Spirit demanding that we repent, and we fix our relationship with those we have hurt, and we make things right.
This cannot be escaped.
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Only the truth can set us free.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook. 2019.