Past and present

[Guest guest]

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Since you're not blaming the future for the

present, why, then, are you so quick to blame

the past?

 

The past can only tell you about the past.

 

The past can't tell you anything about the

present moment.

 

Paradoxically, though, unless you actively

participate in fully honoring the present moment,

then your so-called future may look a whole lot

like your so-called past.

 

But here's an important point: Just because the

past is unreal, it doesn't mean that it never

actually happened.

 

Real or not, though, you still can't change the

past.

 

You can only change your experience of the past.

 

But, of course, that change can never happen in

the past.

 

That change can only happen in the present.

 

- Chuck Hillig

 

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Seeds for the Soul

Chuck Hillig

Black Dot Publications, 2003