What is an example of a price you felt you had to pay to make you feel wiser today, lately?

“… it may seem easier to manipulate outcomes or avoid consequences, [cuz] we know that we cannot afford the price we would have to pay.  The resulting shame, regret, and loss of spiritual contentment would far outweigh anything we might possibly gain by compromising our principles.” (It Works, How & Why, p. 47)

“Many of us had lived our lives up to this point with a secret feeling of shame .”  “Often this shame stemmed from unresolved guilt over mistakes we’d never fully dealt with.” (Overeaters Anon., p. 29)

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong,
which is but saying … that he is wiser today than yesterday.”  Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Irish satirist/writer

SHAME – Robbie Williams (4:24) 

Simple Simon

“One evening, Simple Simon met a pie man. The pie man was on his way to a food fair in the village.

“Dear pie man, let me taste one of your pies,” said Simple Simon.

“Alright, but first you have to give me a penny. Then I will give you a pie,” said the pie man.

“I’m sorry but I don’t have any money,” said Simple Simon. The pie man smiled and left Simple Simon standing by the roadside. Simon did not have a pie from the pie-man who did not give a pie to the Simon because Simon did not give a penny to the pie-man.”

Everything has a price.

We have to pay the price to attain what we want. Otherwise, our life will not make a progress.  (http://www.english-for-students.com/simple-simon.html)