Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Live today, don't relive yesterday

There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with artlessness.
- Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)

"Artlessness" does not mean without skill. Rather it means in an innocent way, as a child would.

When we conduct our lives ever mindful of the emotional and psychological baggage we have collected over the years, we do ourselves a disservice, binding ourselves to past ways of doing things just as surely as if we were bound by chains.

Each act we do should be considered and done for its own merit. Just as today the world has moved on from where it was yesterday, we must move on from the emotional baggage of our past.

Today can only be a new day for us if we let go of what happened yesterday, whether yesterday was a good day or a bad day.

Bill Allin
'Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems,' striving to help each person make today a good day.
Learn more at http://billallin.com/cgi/index.pl

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