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While reading the book " Women, Food and God" i came across an interesting thought or Idea. I'm not sure how hard it would be to grasp, if not reading the chapter. but this is what i found interesting, and true.

" Jill Bolte Taylor, a harvard-trained neuroanatomist, talks about the euphoria she experienced when, during a stroke, her left-brain functions of linear thinking and using the past to orient the present stopped functioning. When there was no longer a memory of the way thing were, there was no concept of the self, no longer a me and you. THere was no seperation between the molecules in a hand and the molecules in a sink or in a blade of grass. Without the grid of the past imposed on the moment-to-moment unfolding of the present, there was only peace, only radiance, only awareness and profound awe at living itself.

Spiritual teachers have been pointing to that same possibility minus the stroke for thousands of years: the bliss that occurs by arriving where you are. When we are not reconstructing the past in every nanosecond, what is here is so satisfying, so loving, so unbelievably simple that once tasted, it changes everything. Because then you know whats possible and you refuse to settle for anything less"

"By Constantly Laminating our past defenses onto our current reality, we create the illusion that what was there then is here now. We never arrive in the refulgent ever-new possibilities of the present"

This was really interesting to me, Because sitting thinking about it, if everyone eliminated all that has happened in the past, we would be so much more satisfied with whats here in the present. I think people should working on taking a look at all the have right now, in the moment, forgetting what may have happend in the past, or how youve felt in the past, and just let the present be, let go, and look at what you have NOW. I have a great apartment that i love all to myself, i have piece and quiet, I am going to school full time, pretty much year round, i have 3 jobs, and a family whom i love. Looking at that right there, is enough to put a smile on my face. I am so fortunate to have those things, that i know a lot of people out there cant say that they have them. From here on out i will start loving what i have, instead of dwelling over what i do not have, or wish that i had, or never wish that i lost. I am going to stop dwelling over things that i cannot control, and focus on ones that i can :) Right now, thats the only way to be if i want to keep moving forward!