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All we have is now, the past is an illusion just chemicals in our brain and the future is yet to happen, more chemicals in our brain. Everything happens now, now is all there is.

How crazy it is to regret something that doesn't exist. Life comes into our now and then it's gone. It doesn't hang around somewhere in the background out of view. It either is or it isn't.

Ask an eagle what it did before now and it will look at you as if you're crazy. Before now, well, there is only now. There was never anything other than now.

Ask yourself what are your problems in life. What is wrong with your life right at this instant? It's amazing when you realise the truth that now is all there is, just how may of your so called problems dissapear. Problems require a past and a future, and these a mind made ideas. All there is, is now.

 

May you enjoy your now, every moment of every day.



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Thanks...windowview for the observation.



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For me, tho, I need for my "now" to incorporate all there was, all there is, and all there will be, because my brain, with it's well-worn neuropath to, through, and in memory of my addictive disorder (prone to recurrence even after long periods of remission) does not offer me the luxury of wishing it away or rationalizing that my currently sober state is a given as long as I stay in the moment. For me, that lasts about as long as my determination to have just one.

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Nothinq wronq with the past if we can look back with qratitude. No matter what happens, no matter how unfortunate a situation, there is always somethinq to be qrateful for, if you're still here.

Thanks for the qreat post windowview!

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Thanks for this post, worldview!

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Living in the Now is fine, especially if you ekhart tolle and can make a small fortune from writing about it. But as a fallible human I have a past, which I learn from and a future, which I hope for.

Sure, I try to live in the day, but without the lessons of the past I would be repeating history, without hope for the future i wouldn't have a thing to work for.

So long as I remember that I make my plans and put in my work and the result is up to God, not me, I'll be OK.



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