Do you understand the “begin Again” principle? Do you know how to begin again at any moment and leave the past behind, how to disengage your mind from old negative memories and live in the present, going toward a better state and a better future? Are you chained to the past, to regrets, shame and guilt, which is rooted in the illusion that you have free will?
To begin again you must have some degree of “I” consciousness, awareness that you can create your inner destiny. Destiny is not an outer condition; it is an inner state of mind. Fate is to be in the world and of the world. Destiny is to be in the world but not of the world. A conscious pursuit of destiny is to create a kingdom within ourselves.
When you find yourself bogged down in some inner confusion, have the courage to think and to say to yourself, “I shall begin again-Now!” You must train your mind to think in this way again and again and again in specific experiences. To affirm new beginnings intellectually is useless, and to have merely an emotional feeling about beginning again is equally futile.
You must start to think in terms of beginnings again with your whole being. If you believe it is not possible to think in this way, then you have fallen victim to the trap described by Spinoza as a law of human nature: If we think something is impossible, then it is impossible. Much of our hopelessness is based on the fact that we have accepted the premise of impossibility.
Train your mind to make a new beginning now and then. Don’t expect instant results. Every effort will gradually strengthen your mind, until at some point you will have developed enough strength to find your self in that miraculous state where you are really free from the past moment, past memory, or even a long ago past. You’ll find your mind fresh, free and future-directed. There is no end to the new beginnings you can make. Begin again and go ahead to a new and better future.
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