THE TRULY GOOD WOMAN
“A woman who felt guilty over past misdeeds said to herself,
‘I must repent. I will start by doing good to others.’
So she joined charitable organizations and said nice things
to people. But to her surprise she felt a vague resentment
toward her activities. She felt forced to be good. This
doubled her guilt, for now she felt guilty over her resent-
ment toward doing good.
Though confused, she intelligently reflected, ‘There is
something dreadfully wrong. This is not goodness at all;
it is self-enslaving stage-acting. True goodness must be
something entirely different.’
So she began a search for true goodness, which she finally
found. She explained to herself, ‘True goodness blooms in
the absence of an unconscious self-picture of being good.’
Abolish conditioned thoughts about personal goodness and
badness and authentic goodness flourishes.”
                    –Vernon Howard, Inspire Yourself, p. 45
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