My good friend, Matt, sent me the following the other day:

Ultimately…it’s not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose. —Sylvia Boorstein

The timing of Matt’s email couldn’t have been more perfect. I have been thinking a lot about the past, and the above fits well. As this statement aludes to, the past that we remember as occasional thoughts and stories that we tell ourselves and others, does not have a dramatic impact upon our current lives. It is the past that we remember over and over again that influences our present experience.

When anything occurs, it always happens now. In this instant. And just as quickly, it is gone. Even if it is an event that takes place over an… Read the rest →

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