Today

Today can be a day of peace and reconciliation. A day of peace and reconciliation within your own body and mind. 

Each day of life, each moment of life, is a choice when the mind is awake. Choose the lighted path to the future of equanimity and joy. Turn from looking back to the shaded path of past pains and indignities. That path is too well worn with the mind's fruitless pacing and fretting. 

Dwelling on the past is not a way to learning and applying its lessons. Take your past in hand as a tool, a helpful guide along the way to liberation. Examine it. Appraise it. Use it. Do not bemoan it or wish for another. Learn from your history. Do not repeat it. Create a present you desire with a clear, creative mind. Walk to the future with confidence in yourself. 

Today is one of too few in a single lifetime. Spending it on sentimental grief or imagined loss is a waste of precious, irreplaceable time. The greatest loss in life is the loss of time to foolishness, needless grief and resentment. Joy lies waiting for you in this moment. Peace is yours to create in this moment. Reconcile with your own mind and walk into the light of today.