The following is an excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s best-selling book, “The Power of Now”. During my younger years, as with many others, I had allowed memories (especially traumatic memories) to take control of my life experiences. For more than a decade and a half, these traumatic memories were held in the forefront of my consciousness, in the Now, which perpetuated a life of dark and destructive events and circumstances. Had I known then what I know now, life would have been different. But then again, maybe I was meant to live my life that way at that time so as to learn a very powerful lesson.
“Negativity and Suffering Have Their Roots in Time”
"Usually, the future is a replica of the past. Superficial changes are possible, but real transformation is rare and depends upon whether y0u can become present enough to dissolve the past by accessing the power of the Now. What you perceive as future is an intrinsic part of your state of consciousness now. If you mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future – which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.
You may win ten million dollars, but that kind of change is no more than skin deep. You would simply continue to act out the same conditioned patterns in more luxurious surroundings. Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty men with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is in the Now.”
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