It’s of no use to look back and say,”I should have been different.” At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we’re able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.
Quote by Charlotte Joko Beck
Charlotte Joko Beck was an American Zen teacher and the author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen. Wikipedia
REFLECTION:
- Do you spend time lingering in guilt?
- How can you accept the past … appreciate what you learned from it?
- How can you live more in the now… move beyond what life would have been if it had been different?