If you keep the past alive within you, you will become dead to the present.

The essence of life is in knowing what is memory, what is imagination, and what is

existentially true.

For some past is like a thorn that pokes them every day.

For some they may be pleasant memories, not that you should forget it.

It is just that you must learn to carry it with a little distance.

Then it's very useful, past is our experience of life.

It is not to be junk, but it needs to be carried with a little space if it always sits upon

your head.

People will be seriously burdened.

This is all the differences between the exuberance and joy of childhood to very stressed existence

that most adults have come into.

This is all the difference.

They do not know how to carry their past loosely, they are carrying it very tight within themselves.

They are trying to live the past.

You can remember the past, learn from the past, but you cannot live it.

When you try to live it, you will become dead to the present, and in many ways your aliveness

will go down.

This effort to live the past is in a way suicide in installments.

This is the reason why most human beings become less and less alive as time goes by.

So past is not a burden, if you know how to carry it.

You don't have to carry it, it anyway comes with you.

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