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Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
Sep 16, 2025
Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.
I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain.
Love yourself. Love your soul and let go of the past. Past pain is keeping you in pain. You don't have to deteriorate.
...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.
The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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