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September
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Today's
quotation:
If one changes
internally, one should
not
continue to live
with the same objects.
They reflect one’s mind and psyche of yesterday.
I throw away what has
no dynamic, living use. I keep nothing to remind me of the passage of
time,
deterioration,
loss, shriveling.
Anaïs Nin
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Today's
Meditation:
If
I'm not the same person I was a few years ago, then why do
I continue to hold on to objects that were important to me
then? It makes sense that I would be finding
importance in new things, and that the old things should
become less and less significant to me as time goes on and
I change more.
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That
may be true, but what about the memories? What about
the emotional ties that those memories evoke? It
certainly isn't a simple question, is it?
But
how can I be helping myself if I continue to hold on to
things and objects that are constant ties to my
past? My past is not who I am now. These
objects, in theory, are keeping me tied down to certain
thoughts and ideas, and they may not allow me to move
forward as easily as I might be able to do if I didn't
live with the constant memories of what was.
Every
fall, many trees and bushes and flowers lose the leaves
and stalks and branches that they've had all summer.
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These things have been important to them for a very long
time, but they know when it's time to let go and move
on. Those leaves and branches are gone for good, and
next spring new ones will take their place. Just
like those plants, our lives follow seasons, and at the
end of some seasons, it's much better to shed those things
that have gotten us through the season and move on to the
next one. Life moves on, always, and we can grow
much more if we move along with it rather than fighting
the current.
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Questions to
consider:
What kinds of things do you hold on to that may keep
strong your ties to your past?
How can holding on to things keep you from moving
forward?
Why is it important to keep only those things that are
important for the season you're in now? |
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For further
thought:
I
think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They
rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what
they cared about. The forces
against it are nostalgia and the
enormous appeal of having things the way
they always have been, appeals
to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.
John
W. Gardner
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