Arrested Development

"To lie to oneself about one's own potential development is another cause of guilt. It is one of the most insidious daily inner gnawings a person can experience. Guilt, remember, is the bind that man experiences when he is humbled and stopped in ways that he does not understand, when he is overshadowed in his energies by the world. But the misfortune of man is that he can experience this guilt in two ways: as bafflement from without and from within--by being stopped in relation to his own potential development. Guilt results from unused life, from 'the unlived in us.'" -- ERNEST BECKER