If you haven’t ever gone against your sense of right and wrong, you may not understand the depths to which shame can immobilize and separate you from society.
If you have, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
If you make a mistake, you have 3 choices.
You can justify your choices to make yourself feel better, you can fall into shame and feel awful, or you can begin to learn a deep level of compassion for yourself and ultimately others who have made mistakes before.
The only way to learn true empathy and deep compassion is by really understanding how awful shame feels.