let go of the past

The past is gone; seek not to preserve it

For the ego holds the past against you, and in your escape from the past it sees itself deprived of the vengeance it believes you so justly merit.

The past is nothing. Do not seek to lay the blame for deprivation on it, for the past is gone. You cannot really not let go what has already gone. It must be, therefore, that you are maintaining the illusion that it has not gone because you think it serves some purpose that you want fulfilled.

I am not alone, and I would not intrude the past upon my Guest.

I have invited Him, and He is here.

I need do nothing except not to interfere.

Do not use empathy to make the past real, and so perpetuate it.

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

try to perceive the present moment in its raw, unfiltered state.

This is the realm of the steady-state, where potential exists in its pure, uncollapsed form.

We mistakenly assume that the present is merely a continuation of the past, a predictable outcome of previous actions.

But what if we’re looking in the wrong direction? What if the true nature of reality lies not in the quantized past, but in the ever-present, unquantifiable now?

“Any man can fight the battles of just one day,” begins a passage collected in Richmond Walker’s book of meditations for recovering alcoholics, Twenty-Four Hours a Day . “It is only when you and I add the burden of those two awful eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives men mad. It is re