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'''I see only the past'''.

<center>'''I see only the past'''.</center>

 

 

I see only the past.

I see only the past.

This idea is particularly difficult to believe at first. Yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones.

This idea is particularly difficult to believe at first. Yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones.

It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything.

:It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything.

It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you.

:It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you.

It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see.

:It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see.

It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything, and why they are like the things you see.

:It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything, and why they are like the things you see.

It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think.

:It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think.

It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there.

:It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there.

Old ideas about time are very difficult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in time, and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it. Yet that is precisely why you need new ideas about time. This first time idea is not really so strange as it may sound at first.

Old ideas about time are very difficult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in time, and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it. Yet that is precisely why you need new ideas about time. This first time idea is not really so strange as it may sound at first.

Look about you. This is equally true of whatever you look at. Acknowledge this by applying the idea for today indiscriminately to whatever catches your eye. For example:

Look about you. This is equally true of whatever you look at. Acknowledge this by applying the idea for today indiscriminately to whatever catches your eye. For example:

<center>I see only the past in this pencil.</center>

<center>''I see only the past in this pencil''.</center>

<center>I see only the past in this shoe.</center>

<center>''I see only the past in this shoe''.</center>

<center>I see only the past in this hand.</center>

<center>''I see only the past in this hand''.</center>

<center>I see only the past in that body.</center>

<center>''I see only the past in that body''.</center>

<center>I see only the past in that face.</center>

<center>''I see only the past in that face''.</center>