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“I didn’t understand … I couldn’t put to words what I was going through (I just felt it)… so how could I expect my friends to understand?” –anonymous
Sometimes it is necessary to look backward and live backward for a season to show you more clearly the evil of doing so. For no lesson can be learned without an experience.
It is not merely the evil of living backward in a particular locality that you will come to see clearly. Also, for the first time, you will see where you have been unconsciously, using up force, which would have otherwise pushed you forward in every sense. You’ll understand, also, after passing through this process, why weeks before visiting that place you had felt depressed, and experienced also a return of certain moods you had not felt for years. It was because your spirit was already in that place and working through this change. The culminating point was when your material self touched that locality.
All changes are wrought out in spirit often before our material senses are in the least aware of them.
You are not above error and mistake.
Power comes from looking forward with hope- of expecting and demanding the better things to come. That is the law of the Infinite Mind, and when we follow it we live in that mind. I do not mean to banish all past remembrance. Banish only the sad part. Live as much as you please in whatever of your past that has given you healthy enjoyment. You can revisit the localities connected with your past, remember and live only in the bright and lively portion of that past.
There are remembrances of woodland scenes, of fields of waving rain. Of blue skies and white-capped curling billows, and many another of Nature’s expressions as connected with your individual life, that can be recalled with pleasure and profit.
The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.
-Prentice Mulford
Keep Learning,
Maryam
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