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If my experiences and remembrances of the past are becoming hindrances in the present through their reaction,then I cannot comprehend or live fully, intensely, in the present.
You react to the past because the present has lost its significance, or because you want to avoid the present;so you go back to the past and live in that emotional thrill, in that reaction of surging memory,because the present has little value.

You cannot forget the past. You cannot blot it out of your mind. That is an impossibility. Subconsciously it will exist, but if that subconscious, dormant memory is influencing you unconsciously, is molding your action, your conduct, your whole outlook on life, then that influence must ever be creating further limitations, imposing further burdens on the functioning of intelligence.

If you rely on memory as a guide to conduct, as a means of activity in
life, then that memory must impede your action, your conduct, because then that action or conduct is merely the result of calculation and, therefore, it has no spontaneity, no richness, no fullness of life.