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Overcoming a difficult past.
The importance of staying in the present.
Life is in continual progression. We hope it is towards a brighter and better future. No matter how good the present circumstances are, the mind keeps hoping for more. There are different levels of ambitions about the future that stream through the mind at the same time. Some relate to our home life, others to work life, social life, and so on. Our awareness travels in each of these lanes. The past, however, hangs like a cloud over dreams of the future. Everybody has a past, which may contain memories of difficult times. Some can move away from the past more quickly than others.
Everybody has a past, which may contain memories of difficult times.
One of the most challenging tasks to accomplish is to be completely rid of the baggage of the past. We need not erase all memories of the past. They can continue to exist. They will not trouble us as long as we don’t invest our awareness in them. Memories trap the mind’s energies, which makes the mind weak. The more we dwell on the past, the less we engage with the present. The past will then return as the future. The bruises and wounds we carry from the past will project pain on future experiences, thereby contaminating the future.
One of the most…
