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Because
whenever you "remember" something from the past, you
"reanimate" it in the present.
It’s not a philosophical statement to say that everything happens
in the present---it’s the truth. Think
about it. We remember the past
and make predictions for the future all in the present moment.
We experience reality only in the now.
For millennia, mystics (and more recently, scientists) have
informed humankind that time is an illusion.
But we’re so tied to our stories about the past (you know, how
badly we were treated as children, teenagers, etc.) and our desires for
the future (yes, all those worthwhile goals such as financial abundance,
powerful positions, etc.) that we can’t see that what we focus our
attention on in the moment is our reality.
Every time we review painful memories from childhood, we give them
life and confirm our sense of powerlessness.
While we pray for more money in the future, we do nothing more than
affirm our feelings of lack. So,
what’s the answer? Stop
dreaming, stop thinking, stop remembering?
Well, yes, as a matter of fact.
If time is merely a construct, we can choose to deconstruct it.
Without time, there is no death and we are free to simply be.
The function of time is to get us to realize that it doesn’t exist.
That just might be the key to enlightenment.
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