The truth about the past is simply that it has passed. This means that our experience of each moment — for its pleasure or pain, peace or trouble — is a direct reflection of what we are in relationship with in the present.<\/p>\n
Our attention connects us to life; it establishes our relationships with all that unfolds around and within us. Our experience of life reflects these relationships just as a rainbow reveals the different colors of light. This means that, whenever resentment or regret darkens our day, there’s only one reason for our sorrow: we’ve been tricked into revisiting and reforming an unconscious relationship with some misery-making moment from our past. We’ve simply made a bad connection within ourselves, due to a temporary lapse of attention\u2026 [to be continued]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The truth about the past is simply that it has passed. This means that our experience of each moment — for its pleasure or pain, peace or trouble — is a direct reflection of what we are in relationship with in the present. Our attention connects us to life; it establishes our relationships with all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[513,7],"tags":[19,768,52,106,152,79,1256,1255],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-present-moment-the-now","category-self-remembering-awareness","tag-attention","tag-misery","tag-pain","tag-peace","tag-regret","tag-resentment","tag-revisiting-the-past","tag-the-past"],"yoast_head":"\n