Post Written By Eugene Morgan Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. — Cherokee Proverb The above quote is a good description on how we spend too much of our time in the past while taking our time away from our present. There is nothing left in our present when we spend our time in […]
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Find Yourself In the Present
Post Written By Eugene Morgan In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra In order words, we’re not defined by our past. Therefore, we don’t have to identify with the past as though that’s all to live for. Our past is a reflection […]
Our Story Is Not Over
Post Written By Eugene Morgan One bad chapter doesn’t mean your story’s over. — Unknown We all have bad chapters in our lives, and we also have good ones as well. Not only we are stronger when we go through difficulties, but we also have a better understanding of things that we didn’t have before. Our future […]
Cloud of Smoke
Post Written By Eugene Morgan There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life. — Anais Nin If we learn today, we will have skills tomorrow and for the rest of our lives. What skills we have today are what we learned yesterday or many years […]
Let Go of Yesterday
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you. — Steve Maraboli We hold on to something like the past because it is familiar to us even though what we hang on to is unhealthy or self-destructive. Because it’s familiar to us doesn’t mean we have to hold […]
Enjoying the Moment
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. — Richard Bach We take things for granted when we don’t take advantage of our moments. Our moments are for the time we enjoy spending together with friends and family. We create our moments when we’re in the […]
We’re Different People Then
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland That’s one of the reasons we long for yesterday because we want to experience how things were then. It is true we had some good times, but we forget that we had […]
The Next Chapter of Life
Post Written By Eugene Morgan You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one. — Unknown Holding on to the past is the very foundation as to why we can’t move forward. Letting go of the past, also means letting go of old ideas. Some of our ideas can be […]
Always Begin Again
Post Written By Eugene Morgan No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. — Buddha Starting a new day is our opportunity to let go of our past. The past is something we can’t control. The past is but a memory. It is something we can no longer touch. Today we have the opportunity […]
How Far You’ve Come
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Always concentrate on how far you’ve come, rather than how far you have left to go.— Unknown When we get discourage, it would be a good reminder for us to look back on how far we’ve come to lift our spirits. When we see how far we’ve come, we then can […]
What Matters Most is Today
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Buddha What we do today is what matters most because action can only work in the present not in the past or the future. The past we can only reflect while looking at the future we can only […]
Appeal To Reality
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. — Robert Pirsig This is an interesting quote because not only Robert Pirsig mentions the past, future, present, but also he mentions them in terms of our experiences of the past, future and […]
Add Better Things
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.” — Shiloh Morrison When we add better things to our future to correct the bad things in our past, we begin to see a trail of happiness. When the better […]
Prepare Today for Tomorrow’s Wants
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.” — Aesop Preparation is a form of planning for the future. While we still have our mobility, still have our faculties and our health, it is thrifty to prepare today so we don’t have to worry about tomorrow or our […]
Enjoy The Dream Today
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.”— Don Miguel Ruiz Sometimes we don’t want to let go of the past is because there is a familiarity. We’re comfortable with familiarity of the past even though it can sometimes hurt. The […]
Truly In The Present
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.” Thich Nhat Hanh When we look in our past and in our future, we’re spending 2/3 of our time away from the present. While our minds are either in the past or in the future, our […]
Another Chance To Change
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Every new day is another chance to change your life.”— Unknown When we look back in regret of our past, we are not giving ourselves another chance to change our life. We make ourselves feel powerless when we think we can change our past. The good news is that it […]
Celebration Leads To Reflection
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Today is a time for celebrating, meeting loved-ones, friends, and gathering at the table for a feast, then afterwards exchanging gifts. All the preparation has ended yesterday for this moment. Now we can relax and be with the people we love. Today is also a time to reflect on the […]
A New Beginning
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”— Maria Robinson It is too late to go back in our past to start over. There is nothing we can do to change our past. However, we can learn from our past. […]
The Perfect Moment
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”— Unknown There is no such thing is a perfect moment. Waiting for the perfect moment is only created in our heads. Today we have the privilege to take the moment and make it to near perfect. In […]