Chapter 23Time and Change of the Nature · The Past and the Future

One cannot go back to the past, one has always to go in the future.

* The past has not to be kept, — one has to go into the future realisation. All that is necessary in the past for the future will be taken up and given a new form.

* It is always preferable to have one’s face turned towards the future than towards the past.

* Yes — one should always have one’s look turned forwards to the future — retrospection is seldom healthy as it turns one towards a past consciousness.

* Take with you the peace and quietude and joy and keep it by remembering always the Divine.

If the thoughts about the past and the future come merely as memories and imaginations, they are of no use and you should quietly turn away your mind from them back to the Divine and to the Yoga. If they are anything to the purpose, then refer them to the Divine, put them in the light of the Truth, so that you may have the truth about them or the right decision or formation for the future, if any decision is needed.

There is no harm in the tears of which you speak, — they come from the soul, the psychic being, and are a help and not a hindrance.

Chapter Five

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