If you no longer hold onto emotional and stymied memories from the past, what then will your life be like? What will you be then? What will you be done with?

In this scenario, you will know your name. You will know all the things you need to know – where you live, where you work, the skills you have learned, and where your heart is. What will your life be like when you no longer try to relive your life again and again like a chant?

Your emotional pain will no longer exist! Ah, there will be no mourning the past. You will love. You will be aware of all the hearts that are no longer on Earth. It is your attachment that will leave. Love will stay, yet your sense of loss and need will go.

You will have joy. You will have sweetness instead the hurt that loved ones are no longer present in your life. You will smile at thoughts of loved ones rather than cry.

Each memory will be a page in a book that you turn, and you are ready for the next page without a qualm.

At present you may cry your heart out. It will come to pass that a photo from the past will give you happiness and no longer perpetuate longing and bewilderment.

You will continue to love without suffering over it. Because your heart is a heart that loves does not mean you are indebted to suffering. Your love will not have flown away. Grieving will have flown away.

You will meet your loved ones again, and there will be rejoicing! If you must think of the past -- if you must -- you will think of it with rejoicing.

Your heart is still connected with your loved ones' hearts. Only the having to have, the insistence that you have been separated and are incomplete -- this heaviness will leave like a sailboat sailing in a lagoon. You don't have to wrench yourself apart with memories.

What is this hold that memories have over you?

You know you cannot stay where you once were the way a baby must cling to his baby blanket. You gave up the baby blanket long ago. You no longer live in the house where you were born, and, yet, how you cling to memories of the past with a sense of emptiness.

The past is not a bad guy. All the past, the loving and the painful, are only thoughts. That’s all memory is, remembered thoughts. Now you know how precious the once past is to you. It means a lot to you. Now you will simply embrace. No words will need to be said. You will love and be glad to embrace. Only love will remain. Love will have been brought home to you instead of your mourning for it.

Beloveds, you will live in a world of no regrets, no hanging-on, and without perceived need for fear. Rain or shine, you will love your time and space in the world. You will be like newly-mowed grass. The air will be fresh and sweet. There will no longer be the old movie reel of the past that presently may rend your heart.

You will be glad for each moment of your life, for you know now that every moment of life is an overture. Desperation will not even be a memory any longer. Your heart will be glad to have lived life as you lived it. You will let go of your thoughts of right or wrong and who did what and why. You will no longer entrap yourself in a long ago song.