Dear Readers,
Recently I stumbled upon a question from a reader that intrigued me : are we prisoners of the past?
Please give me your thoughts on that.
Love,
Paulo
Are we prisoners of the past?
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Yo creo ke el pasado es la clave del futuro… Por nuestros actos pasados hoy somos lo ke somos… personalmente me cuesta mucho dejar mi pasado atráz… hoy sigue siendo muy fuerte frente a mis nuevas elecciones…
I think YES. We are all some sort of prisoners of our past since the past is the key to the present and the future.
We have to hold on to our past in order to learn and to develop. There would never have been any development nor any changes if we had not known and believed in our past.
Sometimes the past may be cruel and hurting but we should never forget that at some point in our previous life the past was our present. And we made it through. So no matter how hard it may feel to remember we should never ever forget.
Nevertheless I wouldn’t say that we are “prisoners” not in the sense of being trapped and kept against our own will.
We are prisoners because we ought to be, because we chose to learn from our past in order to not make the same mistakes again.
Just discovered this community. Can you guess the pleasure I feel!
Are we prisoners of the past?
No, but we act that way. It’s all right.
Love and Aloha,
William
I can tell. Welcome!
The question is not are we prisoner of the past! The question is how can we free ourselves from the past! There are many ways to do that depending on one’s beliefs, circumstances and personal situations. One great way that can fit a lot of us is : Gratitude! If you are grateful to the past, even its most distasteful moments and experiences, then the past won’t have much to hold unto your life! If you embrace the past, you will embrace the present and the future! We too often attach ourselves to the past because of its painful memories. Once we reconcile with it by accepting them and being thankful for them, freedom is in your hands! It doesn’t mean that we are not influenced by the past but it doesn’t carry that dreadful burden with it. Very often the past wants us to be sad, and defeated, through these things, deal with them and find happiness, whatever you do don’t be bitter about the past! Or you will be a slave and might live in the past, and miss the wonderful opportunities of the present and future!
Kiss the past goodbye. Look at it in the eyes and tell uncle past, I love you, thank you, gotta go now!
hey chris!
I so needed to be reminded of this…thanks a ton :)
Our past, our genes and our experiences influence us.
Everyone have his/her own opinion… the question itself is answer
NO not at all,
i don’t think that it’s totally our life and our future which we inherit from our parents or receive from god so we should try our best to make it worth living and worth remembering for others .
on contrary people habitual of blaming the conditions and others always have an excuse especially regarding their life failures……………
my words may sound harsh but my past experiences have given me some rock solid points through which i can prove it …………
in every way i think yes!because we use to compare all happenings of our life with our past experiences,whether they were good or bad.we longed for the things which we left in the past.we grief on the passing of many precious present moments which is contributing in our past.in youth we crave for the childhood,in old age we want the golden age back.we search even the same delicious taste of a dish which last time we liked much.we are carrying window of our past all the time with us.whenever we get time we just open it and start looking in our past.its just like that.
Well thats an interesting topic acctually….
U can study it by 2 point of views….saying…well from the 1st one…callling it the “good” point of view.
U can be a prisoner of your past,and the profits to the present as a result of that fact would be positive.By remembering the mistakes of your past you cant repat them to the present and have a poissbile “good” future.Also by rememberin the good memories of your past that might saden you a lil but still they give you happiness.
In the “Bad” point of view…well we shouldnt be prisoners of our bad past.bad memories.hurtful past moments.even though those wounds made us stronger and learnt us,we still wont be able to forget the pain and to move one.
After all….whats worn giwht being a prisoner of your past?
Its like ur in cell and have the keys!
Its up to you to chose wheter to stay or not…..best is…combining it.!
i haven’t read thoughts above so there is a possibility to repeat someones…
here’s what i think about past.
“I” is not what I was in the past neither is what I shall become because “I” lives in time which is nor past nor future and it has absolute freedom to be what it wants to be, or what is the best choice for “I” to be in the time of presence. It isn’t the passive consciousness as you can think when you say we are the prisoners of past, “I” is very active on the contrary.
yes, i must say that past determine our lives but that is not who we are or who will we be.
Most people are afraid of change so they like to think they’re prisoners of past. But when you consider that the only certain thing in life is change (panta rei) you can say that we are residents of the past, and in anytime with a little reinvestment we could be anywhere else if we want to.
I hope You’ll like my thinking,
hugs,
Alxsandra
I had the same question actually, do we live in memory? Are we incapable of living now and being now instead of projecting to the future and cherished the past.
One of my old colleague told me once that I should not take it seriously what other people or close friends did to me. You know sometimes, your closed ones are those who hurt you most. He said, the more you grow then you will know that you will only remember the good memories. I somehow adore his being wise, the way he made me feels good about my self and to some extend that I decided to leave because afraid of this growing feelings about him. The day I broke the news to him I saw tears in his eyes and he said,” it feel like you come to someone you love and said I don’t love you anymore”. I saw the tears but in his eyes but back then I was so young, I want to see the world. I am now settled down with my beloved hubby, much younger than him and completely treated me different way. There is time when I missed him, perhaps this narcissist side of me, missing to be treated so special. Nevertheless, I understood that perhaps I was only wondering what if and what if, but my hubby is real, he lived with me, we somehow have something really real, a relationship, a pyjamas party when we are into some discussion till morning, lot of stupid things, so yes sometimes there’s time that I’m thinking of that guy in the past but I am aware that perhaps it won’t be that beautiful if we have real relationship.
Yes we are, I´ll give my opinion considering the spiritual past, “the sins of the fathers are visited on the children (the word “sin” correctly translated means “that which is not well for you”). The sadness energy or people gone before us play a part in our ancestral evolution, the sadness of all their lost dreams and dead hopes. In a sense, many are carrying a cross for them taking on their misery. We have to raise ourselves up and break the chain of our conditioning. When we see through sad eyes life will appear cold and dark, conversely, when viewed through happy eyes life will appear bright and positive. So, let´s not go on projecting sad feelings on to everyone an everything!
yo deje de ser prisionera de mi pasado cuando aprendi a perdonar. a perdonar a las personas que me hicieron esclava de mi pasado por varios años, solo perdonandolos de corazon pude sentirme libre. tambien cuando uno escoge el camino del amor…de amar a nuestros semejantes se puede dejar se ser prisioneros, el amor es el sentimiento mas fuerte y cuando uno camina con el no puede entrar otro sentimiento negativo.
Yes, Most of us are prisoners of past..
YES. We are all prisoners of the past if, and only if by prisioners it is meant responsible for our acts, our actions. Our choices in today’s behaviour is tomorrow’s past. Otherwise, NO. Quod Scripsi, Scripsi. What I have written, I have written. What I have done, I have done. I will accept the consequences of my acts but I am not a “forever” prisioner. I have today’s choices to make.
every time i stand on the edge of time to droop all the memories about the past but finally i realized that i’m a memories captive & that kills me deep inside!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pienso que recordar es vivir lo ya vivido,que si es verdad que la vida es una escuela y que uno aprende de todas las experiencias, pero aveces nos enfrascamos en el dolor que nos han dejado los malos recuerdos, en las cosas que nos han echo sufrir y en vez de ver el lado positivo, la parte del aprendizaje, lo que vemos siempre es la profundidad de la herida y el dolor que nos ha causado..No hablo por mi, yo decidi olvidar por completo la parte negativa..(creo, incluso que me pase un poco, porque he borrado algunos buenos momentos que he vivido con esas personas que me han causado tanto daño)..hablo en este caso por aquellos que me rodean y que siempre estan recordando con o sin intension momentos vividos hace tiempo, es como si una parte de ellos no quisiera desprenderse de eso, como si no quisieran cerrar esa puerta..apesar de haber sufrido tanto se aferran tanto pasado, que llegan a ser verdaderos prisioneros de el…lo dificil es que cada quien tiene el mando de su vida y si esa persona no quiere superarlo uno por mas que quiera no puede hacer nada para mejorar la situacion…asi que yo si creo que algunas personas son esclavas, prisionera de su pasado
The past is what made us who we are now. You are who you are because of your past. The way we think and feel; is what determine if we are prisoners of the past or not. If we still regret what we lost, think that we don’t deserve what happened to us, blame others for our mistakes or we think of ourselves as victims of the past, then we will be prisoners and it will stop us from loving God, loving ourselves and accepting our lives’ and who we are. If we don’t have love from within then we will be full of other feelings such as sadness, regret and maybe hate and their will be no peace and thus no productivity, no love to give, no happiness to spread. We will not fulfill our mission in this life. And we will be a source of negative energy to people around us.
Acceptance is important, we should understand that what happened happened for a resion. If you understand that the past happened only to teach you something, to enable you to handle what God is going to give you next; only then you will be free.
life is a big school nd we are the students of the life so whenevr we learn wisdoms from this life due to our mistakes or our wrong beleives,then we do updates for our prencipels and our beleives then we are the people of today and not the people of the past as long as we are learning everyday something new so our daily life determine us,determine who we are and what we are..therefore our past is just to keep for our memories and to not let it happen again..
I like that! God bless you! Cool!
Absolutely! Great stuff! I believe it!
Whether our past burdens us or not depends on what our present is like.If you are stisfied with what you have achieved and if you’re happy with your life, your past justifies itself and you dont get burdened, rather you look back fondly at the memories..
On the other hand, if you have’nt been able to achieve what you would have liked to achieve, you get caught up in the inescapable labyrinth of memories and your regrets..
So what we make of our past, depends on us..
we are prisoners of the past only if we allow it to
the bits of the past are like pieces of marbles
if you carry every thing it will burden you
so choose only the light ones — the ones you can choose and enrich
leave those which burdens and drags us
so we can continue our travel at ease
if it’s bout our own paste. yes we are again!
those memories they’re never gonna leave u alone.. memories just influence every step u take!
.. i used to love horror movies, not anymore! not when i remember that these that i see in that movie, have really happened to my familiars.
.. i had family troubles, now i never go with a guy before i check every familiar of him (even his aunts n uncles), it has become an ailment.
.. ect.
most of us are! especially those of non-developed countries where still remain very strong family-connections (kids marry, they make their own children and all of them still live in one house). they learn in this community to respect their father or grandfather VERY much and all they do is to honor their families, their parents. they still live with the wishes of their natives. that’s what happens in my country…
i was grown up in an intellectual family, not such a big one but still very patriotic.i must say, lately i’m really having some trouble in choosing what to do with my life. i used to love astronomy as a little child, but since it is not possible to study that in my country and if i could it would bring nothing because living in my country u can’t practice an astronomer’s job, i decided to study politics. of course i could go study and live somewhere else, but i don’t wanna live my country! it’s what my family learned me to never do! i would betray my ancestors if i would leave!!
sometimes i hate politics, but though i’m going into that field, because i must finish what my ancestors started, what my father died for n what my life got destroyed for! sometimes i feel like leaving it all behind, but that would be called betrayal (although i know it really isn’t one)!!
sometimes i feel like i just wanna become a designer, i’d become a grate one! but making beautiful clothes is not what makes world a better place.. it also is not what ma ancestors would want me to do..
i’m giving my life up to just bring my nation together.. built my state! an albanian state as it was meant to be. i would be able to kill for that state! although i know world-peace is gonna be arranged just when there will be no states anymore.. i’m gonna give my life to built new states, even i love globalism, that’s what i really want! GLOBALISM! but i’m gonna work for albanism, cuz that’s what my ancestors would want me to do.. cuz they started it, i must finish it !
it is difficult to make a choice between what your heart wants you to do and what your family expects you to do.
but in the end, your heart’s voice is louder and stronger so it is best to listen to it.
And by the way, if your study or job makes you happy and you can make a living doing it, your family will accept the choices you make. they will, because they will have to.
Yes we are, but mostly at the end of our lives when we have only memories of all we have lived….i remember sometimes when i visit my grandfather he is talking a lot of the past. In fact i think that old people become like the child they once were and their memories are more in the past at the same time that the age is advancing.
We are the ones deciding whether we are prisoners of our past or not.
I believe that my past has made me the person I am today, and I am learning from my previous mistakes in order not to repeat them.
The past is to be learned from. It should never be considered as a prison but more as a school, a kind of education containing both theory and practice.
Living consciously in our existence can be grasped by our senses only trough time and space. It can be expressed in time as now and in space as here. I used to be in the past, I will be in the future, but I AM in this moment. I was there, I will be there, the others are there, but I AM here. I AM always, therefore in every moment of my life, I am HERE and NOW. This is the only fact of life that stretches beyond the spurious reality of delusion and makes the complete reality of here and now comprehensible for the mind. You shall not be a prisoner of your past. It is not here and now. It ISN’T.
I definetly feel a prisoner of my past, at times I feel that I might have moved on but then I realise that I havn’t completely, it follows me in the present and probably in the future. However I think that we can choose to not let that keep us from moving on, it should just serve as a ‘safety guide’ so we don’t make the same mistakes again and perhaps an ‘inspirational book’ that makes us see where we’ve been and where we are today.
Me encanta que se haya abierto este debate, pues justamente ayer estaba hablando sobre ello porque hay decisiones que tomas en la vida por causas y circunstancias determinadas, y a veces sigues el camino tomado como consecuencia de esa decisión tomada; pero, como la vida cambia, las personas que se piensan evolucionan, las decisiones tomadas en el pasado pueden no ajustarse a la realidad actual; entonces cabe preguntarse ¿somos esclavos de nuestro pasado?
y creo que siempre tenemos la libertad de elegir, de cambia de rumbo, deshacer y rehacer caminos, por ello no deberiamos ser esclavos.
certainly we are .I saw one movie just now .it is saying the extraterrestrial ,I noticed all the figure of the extraterrestrial is building on the biology in earth.can we work out the figure of extraterrestrial different of the biology in earth ?no way !it’s said :when you didn’t see you can’t know !that’s I say we all lived in the past or the memory in our brain .we can’t creat the things our of our memory!the memory is our confine .whenever we can throw away our brain comfine ,we are newborn .
There are days, weeks, years, hours & minutes when we are prisoners of the past. The memories flood the mind & soul closing your emotions captive to those words, pictures & emotions that we once had. We become imprisoned when we hear a song or a scent returns us to that moment. And its up to you to determine if you want to be permently imprisoned or just sentenced few a moment or to. I know that when I lost a loved one I embranced those past memories and every aspect of the past of I could keep hold of what I had good or bad. At that time when I wasn’t surrounded by the past I also felt imprisioned by my past. But now I am free because I decided it didn’t need to be in a prison of the past yet people hold me to what I have done in the past ans at first I allowed them to imprison me but now I say NO. I also say NO to the past that haunts me because its my time to have a future.
Hi, I would like to open another point of view we can explore. What is the ‘past’ in the first place? For some the past consists of the years that they have lived, like a picture book in our heads that summarizes how we got to where we are today. But try to see the more recent past. I ask you then, when does the past end and the present begin? Each moment becomes the past, the hour that has passed, the minute, the second, the millisecond… each of them becomes the ‘past’ the moment that we try to catch them in time. What then is the ‘present’? Is the present ever really ‘here’? For most of us the ‘present’ is summarized in a vague statement – ‘It is where we are now’, but where are we now? Maybe the present can be compartmentalize in a unit such as a day, or this hour or this minute, but is this truly what is the ‘present’. Take a moment to look, where does the ‘present’ lie. Can we ever be anywhere else but at the present?
hiie….
yeah…..we can say that we are all the prisoners of the past..no person can say he can keep all his past buried in some grave…..it is always within us.it is us who love to rejoice or even mourn upon our past memories.not everyone has the same past, but all the people find their past to be their best company in loneliness…..past here means not only years..it can even mean just the past day.”the yesterday”..is there anyone…who can say that he never thought of “any yesterdays” ??
i don’t think so.it is seldom that we live today….the day we are supposed to live..and utilize the many opportunities…but we either go deep into our past memories….or we sit and daydream….or plan about our future…..that is why not everyone is a successful person..!! success comes to only them who know the art of living…but of course lucky people are exceptions !!! we find strength by living our past in our present. we can know our blunders , our weaknesses….and then work upon them to succeed in future……so it is very much correct to say that everyone in this world is ” a prisoner of the past “…….
We are prisoner of time
a poet says,”a thing of beauty is joy forever” in this sense an individual seems as the prisnor of the past becz past alawys remains beatiful in our eyes no matter how harsh n ugly it may have been. but v alwys take it as sth pleasure giving. v enjoy living in the past. v miss those precious moments, people, places n events that became the sourc of our happiness or unhapness n changd our lives entirely that is the reason, past always follow us like a shadow n v begin to feel v can nver cum out of this. those precious memories of people, n places wil keep haunting us as long as v live under the sun. so, no doubt in this sense man becums the prisnor of the past. but i dont think it is an absolt truth. neither im agree vid this statment. man isnt the prisnor of hz past bt he is the prisnor of hz own desires,wishes, ambitions n expectations. therefore v cant give our desires,wishs or expectation the name of the past becz they r ever changing n remain vid us in different forms or shapes till v r alive. so how one can b right in saying so bcz past itsef nevr came to arrest us. it is v who choose to remain in past n try to arrest it. v r free. v r not bound vid past.
somos prisioneros del pasado?
interesante pregunta,talves solo parta de mi experiencia.el pasado inevitablemente siempre va ligado al presente, el ser humano por naturaleza sufre una resistencia inconciente al cambio y de alguna MANERA siempre esta involucrado con su pasado, es como contruir encima de una base hecha de puras experiencias del ayer,y yega momentos de nuestra vidas donde nos hacemos prisioneros del pasado a tal punto que repetimos historias similares una y otra vezzzzzzzz
Dear Mr. Coelho,
For years, I had been an avid reader and I have never known any author with such a deep-seated soul that clearly comes out through his life-changing novels and impeccable stories shared, too unfathomable for words to describe until YOU.
You have this amazing gift of changing lives of millions of people with nothing more but a computer, your open judgement-free ideas and this ardent love big enough to selflessly share them to world. I am your your most avid fan and I will always be grateful to you for sharing things I was never even aware of, things I took for granted and the things that truly matter.
Are we prisoners of the past? We often ask ourselves that…too countless a time. For me, my past, no matter how great or bleak it was, it will always be a part of me. Mistakes made before or actions that caused pain to others and ourselves happened for a reason ~ lessons serve to mold our integrity and character as we continue to go on with our life’s next chapter. We will only be prisoners when the past we couldn’t let go of because we find it too hard to forgive and forget others and yes, ourselves.(which for me is the most cruel action we can ever do to our own selves.)
A past is something to be honored but the present is what should matter the most. We should live each day like tomorrow’s gonna end and love to our hearts’ delight with no fear or hesitation the least. Our happiness ~ the joy we give so freely to others everyday will subconsciously erase our past mistakes (that we could never escape from the visions in our minds before) because through love, selflessness and friendship, we get peace and absolution from God, from the world and surprisingly from ourselves.
Thank you once again Mr. Coelho. Your words are the reason why my life, no matter how imperfect, I always manage to find a way to survive. And yes, Brida and Maria for me are one and the same.
God is in you.
Chris
I am completely though in effect should not be..as we have the power in and around our selves, to be free.
Yet stigmas, structures can all trip us up and keep us down/refrained.. so that our lives are striving but not achieving…
but this is my personal answer as i am involved in soul retrieval and healing the past…
until i do, i feel i can not move forward.. nor be ..free
I think it's the other way around.
Every significant deed in the past is imprisoned by our mind and we have to let it free, because we shouldn't fill our mind with things we can't change.
I find myself thinking a lot about something I’ve just read it is about the past where you are part of it.
I felt bad when I read it, I would like to stop thinking of that.
I don’t want to research about it, because I am scared to know more about it. It was a good time and good songs, good people, … I thought… but I just learned something bad about it, and feel like I need to know more.
If that is to be prisioner of your own past, perhaps I have a box and know what is inside, but am not certain completly. I don’t want to open but don’t want to ignore it as well.
Facing it will be the best option you would say…
So tell me, where you tellind the truth about the Sociedade Alternativa, or it was fantasy you had to write about?
I am hurt, for something about the past that I learned, and yet I don’t know a lot about not even if is truth.
Not even know much about Sociedade Alternativa and whatever happened in that time, but I sang the songs, I adored the artists and bought the musics.
I always believed in the good above all.
You are a good man and whatever happened in the past you survived and learned the good, you saw the darkness and the light.
I am happy you one day changed your path.
I wish you the best, but feel like swearing at you as well, I do apologise for that.
Kind regards
Shirlei
Paulo, no meu caso sim tenho que lutar todos os dias para que as amarguras do passado nao destruam o meu aqui e agora, pior que ser escravo do passado é sofrer com um futuro que nao existe!
A prisoner of past… past, future, now… time. I think we are, most of all, prisoners of time. We have an illusion of time. An illusion that time goes on and we are the same. But what if, there is no such thing as time? What if there is only different kinds of qualities and possebilities (including us too), which all exits at the same time? In that case, there´s absolutely no chance to be prisoners of anything else that the tight image of ourselves and the existence.
on n’oublie jamais rien ,on vit avec
we r=are not prisoners of the past , its just that each moment changes a human being therefor the past has its effect on us.
Я не пленник прошлого. Выходя на улицу я ощущаю лишь настоящее. Прошлое – это лишь часть меня, это я сам. Прошлое – это мое орудие.
it is only a free world if we allow the other point of view tobe heard with the respect, understanding and love it deserves..
There are no right or wrong in life. There are two sides to a story, there will always be people better and more knowleageable and less than us. It is designed that way for us to learn and grow.
Interesting means just that “interesting” no more, no less, of course there is nothing interesting about war but it would be interesting if there was no war at all and that is what we can do together. I understood that straight away when I changed my question of the week to judgment keeps us in the past to can keep us in the past. A whole panoplie of thoughts came upon me I then knew what the purpose of my life was. I had said judgment keeps us in the past and I realised I was only seeing it from my experience only, not from the other personpoint of view. Ouah…..mindblowing
it is only a free world if we allow the other point of view tobe heard with the respect, understanding and love it deserves..
There are no right or wrong in life. There are two sides to a story, there will always be people better and more knowleageable and less than us. It is designed that way for us to learn and grow.
Interesting means just that “interesting” no more, no less, of course there is nothing interesting about war but it would be interesting if there was no war at all and that is what we can do together. I understood that straight away when I changed my question of the week to judgment keeps us in the past to can keep us in the past. A whole panoplie of thoughts came upon me I then knew what the purpose of my life was. I had said judgment keeps us in the past and I realised I was only seeing it from my experience only, not from the other personpoint of view. Ouah…..mindblowing
i think we should use the past to free ourselves
we should never forget it
and learn from it to change the present
for a better future
sometimes i wonder why humanity is struggling so much with growth, and why people cannot accept change
but want to make the world a reflection of their own desires
then it cannot grow, we all won’t grow
if we think we know what’s coming in the future
if we think we understand the past
and still don’t act in new ways according to our knowledge
Bonjour Arnaud,
Thanks for replying, i am grateful for your insights and everybody insights. It is helping me to grow.
I can only talk about my experience . I have been in a heavily induced coma for years – and as you know judgment has been part of my heavy luggage. It was so bad that even the whispering of my name would set me up.
We need to have a balance (right side of the brain and left side of the brain)The ego is situated on the left side of the brain, so it will alway be there whether we like it or not.
When I started doing meditation, observations on myself I found it was helping me to quieten the “volcano” in me and restore the balance.
I also believe that we can be in judgment any time we do not agree with somebody. Because I have done some work on myself, I am able to see it as another point of you instead of that of a victim.That is why I try to live in my reality (positive) not in others.even though sometimes it hurts still.
What you said Arnaud, was very well put and with a lot of caring.
My cousin is from Aveyron, he is a little bit older than you.
I live 20,0000 kms from France
I do not have any religion, I have never read the Bible either.
Thank you for being, peace and light.
.
As I read everyones comment. I see different perspective in regards to answers to this question. Sir Paulo presents a floating square box but depending on the angle we all are sitting and standing we see different things though all sides are 6 side identical.
The word “prisoner” might connotate the wrong idea about this comment. But the fact remains that we are all reflections of our past, up-bringing, experiences, observation and heritage, though some my oppose and rebel. Their is no future without a past so I will agree that we are prisoners, or rather “products of our past.”
Dear je suis du sud
Thank for your sincerity Marie christine.
I appreciate your analyse about your past attitudes and your wish to progess in life, for yourself and for others. As said Yajna about this blog, i find energy in all experiences presented here. That’s why i’m very happy to partage with you.
Your reference to meditation recall me bouddhism’s conception of life. I’m not a praticer, but i’m interested in the included philosophical message. I hope i dont make a mistake but i think bouddhism consider the notion of « me » (and ego ensue of it) as a wrong perception if you want atteint Nirvana. I write about it because i’m not sure to understand your sentence : «Everything is a matter of choice and balance in life, we need the ego, we need judgment». Of course my words are not jugding (i now you fell it and it makes me so pleasure !), but help me to understand your reflection!
I’ve discovered Paulo’s books after bouddhism’s philosophy. And when Paulo tell us about Agapé in his first book, i feel-it as a “level” of love where ego disappear and let us without judgment. I see in Agapé a rapprochement with bouddhism niravana.
Thank you for being
PS : Nous sommes certainement cousins par un ancêtre commun !Mais je ne connais pas de Marie Christine dans ma famille proche. Je suis du Limousin, j’ai 26 ans, avez vous de la famille là-bas ?
nirvana is a soul state where no ego remains because no personality is there either, no-one to be worked as a subject and no object to work on either. And this is why the no mind is required. No mind means total thought ceasure, absolute. The mind is not just the mind, the human mind; it refers to higher over-soul and the universe in general. The mind is the mind of the universe. So once you are free as a soul from the soul ego that wishes to be experiencing over and over the universe through the process of incarnation then you will know yourself as infinite universal light, not from a human point of view, it can neither happen through the senses nor through the mind. Rational or other. This is why certain spiritual practices (initiations to the higher cosmic light) are used by the master such as shaktipat which is rare to be found in just anyone.
It’s hard to forget,
it’s hard to let go..
when feelings make want more..
and more…..
love
Agnieszka
We are prisoners of the past because without realising we always measure everything around us through the eyes of past experiences. We filter everything we see, hear and taste through things that happened in the past, so based on our personal experiences we enjoy or hate today’s day. Trues sometimes we can overcome some obstacles that our past presents us with and then in a way we create a new image for that past experience, but in all truthfullnes the old experience in new light will continue to follow us until that old experience in new light will be filtered through yet another new light. There are techniques that people can learn to use so that some of the “red flags” or triggers are less evident and less cumbersome, this allowing the person to move on in a way and be less ancored in the past.But unfortunately the past is the driving force…as i finish writing this comment i will already have left something in the past which may influence the future in one way or the other…
Only if we choose to be…What is the past anyway?
Past, present and future are meaningless, there is only the present moment, there is only Infinity.
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