Thought For Today 14 July 2023, J Krishnamurti

How can you deny the past? You can’t scrub it away. The past is of time: your memories, your experiences, your conditioning, your tendencies, your urges, your animalistic intuitions, demands and pursuits. All of that is the past. The whole of the consciousness is the past. The whole of it. And to say, ‘I will deny all that and try to live in the present,’ has no meaning. But if you understand the process of time, which is the past, all that conditioning, all that background which flows through the present and forms the future – if you understand this whole movement of time, then when there is no observer who says, ‘I must be, I must not be.’ Then only it is possible to live neither in the past nor in the future nor in the now. Then you are living in a totally different dimension which has no relationship to time.

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