““The feeling of shame has the same demonic potential to encompass our whole personality. Instead of the momentary feeling of being limited, making a mistake, littleness, or being less attractive or talented than someone else, a person can come to believe that his whole self is fundamentally flawed and defective. Such a person does not have his healthy guilt (moral shame) available to him. Healthy guilt would say, “I made a mistake or a blunder, and I can repair that blunder.” When a person’s guilt has become neurotic, it becomes an “immorality shame.””
