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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.