True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself, to actualize oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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R.D. Laing Quote
“To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.”
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