Shame

We might be walking around with a narrative in our minds that if people really knew us, they wouldn’t want to. What if, after all, our secret judgements of ourselves are true? This is what we are so afraid of. The Truth is we are the Creator in human form. What is there to be ashamed of? No matter what you’ve done in this life, you are infinitely Loved. You can allow this Love in at any time. You just have to let go of feeling bad about yourself. Let go of the lie that you aren’t worth much. Just keep at it and the day will come when you will walk with the grace and self-respect of knowing you are the Creator in human form. Premasudha speaks to us from having walked this journey.

Transcript

I get it about the shame.

I would secretly feel like maybe it was true.

My secret kind of deep criticisms of myself,

It would be like,

Well,

But what if that's true?

I mean,

I know it would be like,

I know God loves me,

But what if it's really true that I'm like a prominent member of the not very good club?

You know,

In England,

They have not very good clubs.

You can join,

You can join,

And then you meet a whole bunch of other people who are like,

Don't have much self-esteem.

I guess,

Well,

It's just so English,

You know?

But there's a sweetness to it,

Right,

And the humor of it.

The self-important members of the not terribly good club.

You see,

This is the thing,

We get more self-important,

The more we feel bad about ourselves.

If we really honor ourselves,

Our self-importance goes way down.

It's like,

You know,

I've said this before,

The aristocracy in England,

They dress like homeless people lots of times.

They know their place,

They know they're valued,

So they just don't worry about it.

And as I said to you again,

In England,

We would call them gentle man and gentle woman.

It's like,

They could afford to be gentle because they weren't stressed about their survival.

Yeah,

But we can come to that through connection to the divine.

You can come to the same thing by feeling loved by the universe.

You become like this aristocrat,

Truly.

You carry yourself with dignity,

Your movements are graceful,

You know,

You're not yelling and screaming at bad drivers.

Yeah,

It's inevitable,

You know,

Really.

If you just,

Just being interested in the divine just leads you into this.

Yeah,

And shame is ego.

Reviews

Yes shame is ego. I want to explore that idea more. Thank you Janet!