Sentences with phrase «exaggerated sense of guilt»

On the social level the contemplative easily intuits the roots of war: fear of self and others that springs from inability to trust God; the unrecognized self - hatred that we project onto others; the illusory view that our political ideals are purer than our opponents», and the accompanying moral paralysis that stems from an exaggerated sense of guilt about holding this illusion.

The early Sufis had an exaggerated sense of guilt and of the terrible torments that awaited the sinners in Hell.