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When you felt you had done enough penance, you did not know how to deal with the part of you you thought you had left. You were so used to thinking of yourself as guilty, and here you had a new sense to deal with. You were like a child with a new toy, and how could it be as good as you supposed and where was the hidden blemish, and so you have been looking for the hidden blemish. In the back of your mind also you wonder if you haven’t done enough penance, and so you worry and stew. You are making progress, however. You are looking inward and you are accepting the responsibility for yourself and your own development.

Now, you were early given the idea that a portion of your personality was guilty and therefore you were relieved when you were told that there were methods whereby you could receive this guilt. You accepted, for example, the penances and so forth because as a child, given the idea of guilt, you wondered what punishment would befall you.

There is no penance! [...] But there is no penance! [...] And when you believe in guilt, then you create the penance in accordance to how strongly you believe in the guilt. [...]

(Someone commented that we come back to do a sort of penance.)

[...] He has nothing else to do penance for. By enduring the literally endless small cruelties he does needless penance, but at the same time he strikes back by causing the father hours of remorse. [...]

[...] He, with his remorseless conscience, welcomes the cruelties, for they make him feel as if he is doing penance, and for what?

He stuttered because the pain from the small burn through subconscious association became, for the first time in this existence, penance for the barely remembered past offense. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self, so-called, now, is only too willing to accept such responsibility, for it believes to some extent that such responsibility is a kind of penance for its own shortcomings. [...]

It shows a change of belief —being willing to bring the body physical pleasure instead of the Sinful Self’s idea of, say, penance or atonement. [...]

[...] The penance is finished. [...]

[...] The transgressions were not as severe as your strong conscious supposed and the time of penance is over. [...]

The ideas of penance, fasting to excess, the personal abuse of the body, such as self-flagellation — all of those practices are conducted in the belief that suffering is something to be sought in itself. [...]

[...] He sold the house on the one hand to make money, and on the other hand he sold it to do penance because in his own way he loved it. He talked of selling the land and tearing down the terrace as a projected act of self-mutilation, mutilating something that he loved, to do penance for his sins, in his light.

[...] The Catholic idea of penance was mixed in here. I added that since she wanted to use the abilities instead of denying them, as the church would want her to do, she chose to continue her mental rebellion and so had to pay penance physically, through the symptoms. [...]

[...] Religions stress the importance of discipline, sobriety, and penance. [...]

The unconscious is understood to be a garbage heap of undesirable impulses, long ago discarded by civilization, while again much religious theory projects the image of the hidden self that must be kept in bounds by good work, prayer, and penance.

[...] It did not pay penance enough for the fact that you were working at Artistic. [...]

There is, therefore, in those regards, no cause for self-punishment or penance (crying), or turmoil. [...]

[...] Now he has been doing penance in his terms: fasting, I believe it is called.

[...] Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had so cursed. [...]

Asia was where you saw him though he was in many other places, traveling in his middle years (Jane dictates:) doing penance for his sins according to the customs of the age.

(Long pause at 9:56.) He spent a good deal of time on his knees, then, doing penance when he did not fit into that structure. [...]

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) Do not follow those who tell you that you must do penance, in whatever form. [...]

[...] Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had cursed. [...]

[...] Even if a violation occurred, natural guilt does not involve penance. [...]

[...] If you think you are ill, most likely past-life information will show that you committed crimes for which you are now doing penance. [...]