The mantra for life, I have discovered, is “that was THEN, this is NOW”.
If we reflect on our thoughts, how much of our thinking patterns come from past experiences? A maximum percentage, I would imagine.
We judge people from past experiences.
Our relationships, more often than not, are dictated by the past experiences too.
Our trust factor also comes with time, again only from the past.
Our behavior stems from early conditioning.
Our guilt comes from what we did wrong earlier.
Our lack of forgiveness is because someone has hurt us and that becomes a negative past memory.
So, the past, which is really a ghost, rules over us even though it has passed.
It is incredible that we still won’t let go. Irrational that we won’t give our present a chance. The more we read about living in the NOW, the less we actually do. The past has occupied so much space within us. It actually lives there; like the cobwebs we have no time to clean. We are so busy planting pretty fences and flowers in a garden which is full of weeds.
Popularly said, “nowhere” can be changed with a new perspective, “NOW HERE”. But our mind is here and there all the time. Never in the NOW.
Awaken, people, to what we are doing to ourselves during our life here! Improving every moment in the present, trying to clean each such moment is the only thing we can do.
As we clean, and declutter, we create new spaces to attract the energy which can change our lives and bring in what we call miracles”.
Surekha Kothari
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Surekha Kothari 