Lesson #20 - Can you change the past or control the future?

(VI) Sixth Law Of Peace - You cannot change the past. You cannot control the future.

Can we ever undo the past?

- The actual happenings is already over and it can never be changed.
- We spoil our perfect present by clinging to the futile wish that the past should have been different.

The same with future also. When there are worries and insecurities about future, are you more efficient handling the job at hand?
- Nobody can control what will happen three minutes from now. Nobody.
- You can only live up to the best potential in the present.
- Just do your best and leave the rest.

If your intentions are not to harm anybody and something happens just by chance, you are absolutely not responsible.
- Just pray, bless and help. You should not take it to heart.
 

Loving yourself is also your responsibility.

- However, if something untoward happens through intent and later on you keep feeling bad about it, that is also not helpful.
 

Regret and guilt are useful only when you resolve to do it differently the next time.
- It is human to make mistakes.

  

If you live in past or future, you are also losing the joy of the moment. Is it prudent to do so?

~ Ajay

 

"The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in." ~ Annie Lennox