Isaiah 43:18-19
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
When meditating I have no set guide lines, nor do I assume the Lotus position for my armchair is more than comfortable, helping me to relax sufficiently to drift off into an unexplored world where all is possible for the dreamer journeying into the unknown depths of the human mind.
Out of our past memories, more especially joyous moments, will appear to remind us of faces, places, and events that occurred in our childhood years when life was simpler, and easier to live with; a time when long idyllic Summers provided us with the freedom to do as we pleased, discovering all that encouraged us to savour a moment in time that continues to surface as if to say, that our past is just a thought away.
Happiness is never about dwelling in the past, or an anxious obsessiveness with all that the future could hold for us, for there is an ever present awareness that our time is forever in the here, and now opening a path into our tomorrows.
Focus all on today and tomorrow the sun will rise to enable us to make our present worth living to die for. To think otherwise is to resign ourselves to perceived better times long buried in our past, always present whenever we take time to remember how we reached this moment in our time.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~Marcus Aurelius
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