The mind is like a camera, whatever it beholds, it will develop via the subconscious and manifest into your physical reality. Or you could say your mind is a mirror. Whatever it faces, it reflects.
This being the case, what happens when you are holding yesterday within mind? That's right - ground hog day ensues. History repeats itself over & over, both individually and collectively. Likewise, if you are facing the outside world - history will repeat itself, over and over again.
I know you want to remember good times that have passed, but in doing so you prevent good new times from coming into your life. I know you want to remember loved one's that have passed but in doing so you are not able to conceive of or know them as they are now beyond the veil. Presently, I know it is beyond your ability to comprehend their (and your) true Self, however by keeping the mind in the present moment, the veil will fall away, and you will see your loved one's again as they really are, as you really are outside the delusion of illusion.
On the same token, what happens when we hold the future in our minds? The future is only a mental concept is it not? A mental concept created by a mind with no consciousness of itself as Awareness, no consciousness of its true Self. No connection to reality. Therefore, we are not holding reality - our true life in our minds, but an idea of reality and I can tell you right now, your idea of reality as a disconnected mind aka Ego, no matter how highfalutin, is no match for the true Self as Soul being Spirit. You as a mind disconnected to your true Self as Spirit are not capable of creating life in the same way as a mind aligned with and working as One with Spirit.
To use an analogy, imagine the difference between a car being built by a 4-year-old and one being built by a 40-year-old. Which car would you prefer to drive? Life created by the true Self is infinitely - literally - far better than life created by a mind unconscious of its true intelligence and love. For instance, sickness and disease is not a reality even though the physical world would attest it is. Sickness and disease came about because of the absence of the true Self. They were created by a mind unconscious of its true intelligence and heart. By a mind living between two poles in duality. The mind cannot know good without bad, so holds both in mind as a comparison even if one is unconscious, therefore, both will play out in physicality. The mind cannot help itself. It will create chaos in the absence of its true Self. It will create both good and bad which naturally spells unrest and war. There is no peace in inconsistency. One must know themselves as Cause beyond Effect (mind/body) which is ever constant, eternal, and peaceful. This is truly living.
Until you have realized the true Self you are like a zombie living life - a dead person creating reality. Rather than creating life as the true Self - as Christ, Buddha etc, one creates as Satan or Pan or whatever name you give to the mind which does not know its true Self as the Buddha or the Christ.
"Jesus said to him, 'Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead. '' - Matthew 8:22
It is the same when you hold a judgment about the present moment in mind. Rather than reality being born in the physical, what is being created instead is your judgment of reality – not reality itself.
The mind was not born to create life but to reveal it. If the mind does create life while in its egoic state, it will create duality which is experienced as the best of the times and the worst of times. It will never know peace. It will never realize is Oneness with all creatures great and small. It will never realize its infinite and eternal nature, leaving it to live in fear of death.
~ Tracy Pierce
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