chaotic13,

We become what we think about the most. If you think you are "a beast, a spawn of Satan, a cancer cell in the body of God" you may be creating these things in you. And just as those thoughts can materialise so can these, "having a sense that I have an important positive contributions to make, a belief that deep inside I am connected to an incredibly powerful positive energy". It's all about what we think about the most.

Yes.

When talking to my T once about all the guilt I felt for the things I had put other people through and what a bad person I thought I was, he reassured me that only good people felt guilt. Bad people don't give a sh** about how they have made other people feel. Sound familiar?

We were taught these things by people who were ignorant of the true nature of all human beings, people whose main priority was to pay bills and keep us alive.

Wants and needs are not evil. Our primitive nature took what it needed and did what it had to in order to survive. We can rise above our primitive nature, we can learn for ourselves what our needs and wants are, we can learn to recognise genuine human needs, including some of the things that we have been lead to believe are wrong or evil, and we can decide the truth for ourselves.

At the core of your being you are a good person.

We don't have to struggle to be good.
All we have to be is our true selves.

Taken from - As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

"Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master."

"Only by much searching and mining are gold an diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. And that he is the maker of his character, the moulder of his life, and the builder of his destiny, he may unerringly prove: if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others, and upon his life and circumstances; if he will link cause and effect by patient practice and investigation, utilizing his every experience, even to the most trivial, as a means of obtaining that knowledge of himself. In this direction, as in no other, is the law absolute that "He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened"; for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge."