Rearview Mirror

Let go of the painful memories that haunt you and continually force you to look over your shoulder at the past. It's tough to move forward in life if you are continually staring in the rearview mirror at an incident in your past.  Purposefully choose to forget.
(Jan Dargatz, 52 Ways To Give Your Spiritual Life A Lift, p. 129)
26 February 2014

Forgetting And Remembering

Seat of Forgetting and Remembering

"They teach us to remember; why do they not teach us to forget? There is not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that memory was as much of a curse as a blessing." (Francis Durivage, with a small change to the phrase, "why do not they" in Pulling Your Own Strings by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, p. 71) 11 February 2012

Don't Forget Yourself

Once recognized, self-defeating patterns can be crossed out and rewritten. (Larsen and Hegarty, Believing In Myself, 19 June)

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.  (Oswald Chambers, in Everything Counts by Steve Case, 17 June)

Don't get stuck in the sands of half-hearted commitments.  (Selwyn Hughes, Every Day Light, p.260)

If you forget yourself, other people probably won't.  (Mr. Dickie, after One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 28 August 2011) 25 September 2011

What Matters

It is not what happens to you, but what you make of it that matters. (Selwyn Hughes, Every Day Light, Day 184)

... even at the moment of our greatest personal joy, we cannot let ourselves forget the many people who have less reason to rejoice than we do. (Harold Kushner, To Life!, p. 228)

31 July 2011