Lesson 8: My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
I’m finding it difficult to start today’s reflection, mainly because I’m too busy thinking about yesterday – the pleasant memories along with those that upset my peace of mind. I’m thinking about the things I enjoyed doing as well as the things I didn’t get done, the things I should have said, the places I could have gone, the people I could have connected with, but didn’t.
Our egos love to help us misconstrue and misuse time. “The mind’s preoccupation with the past is the cause of the misconception about time from which your seeing suffers. Your mind cannot grasp the present, which is the only time there is,” reads today’s lesson.
Because our mind is incapable of grasping the present, we rely on the past to keep us occupied – or on the future, dreaming of a better moment than this one somewhere down the road. For all my preoccupation about things left unsaid or undone yesterday, I can’t change one moment of my past – and the Course tells me that continuing to dwelling on past events and feelings right does me no good, and prevents a miracle from entering my reality.
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