<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # No matter what you lost, or how you were hurt,... > {{No matter what you lost, or how you were hurt, there is no future for you in your painful memories.}} {{The past may have given you awareness, but it is not awareness.}} {{The past is real, but it is as ephemeral, and as unreal, and as unreachable, as any other illusion.}} Memories are illusions; echoes of the past. {{Memories can be a form of false consciousness; a place one lives to avoid living.}} {{As your past emerges in your mind, you vanish in the present.}} {{If you are not careful, your memories can imprison you. You must stop thinking about what you wish to repair from the past.}} {{You cannot heal memories, you can only heal yourself in the present.}} {{All your pain from your past, has already served you.}} {{Keep the lessons of your pain, but not the memories of your pain. Let it all go.}} **Source:** [[books/Various Writings|Various Writings]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->