imagine that!

imagine ... the breathing that would be with NO mental projections forward or backward.  the fear inherent in the assumed need to control by imaging the future or "using" the past, not just anxiously so but even the "happier" visits to these places.

this reminds me, because it ties in with, of ACIM reading of expecting only Truth in a fellow.  this contrasted with Joy's earlier comment of not setting up expectations because then she couldn't be let down.  so it's the abstract Truth we can expect, not any particular form, and THEN we will never be let down because we are living in confidence.  instead of unconsciously noticing and confirming how people are wrong (projecting our own attacking head space out), we instead live with the attitude that others are right.  that's the story i can live now instead of rehearsing the past.

there's the tie in.  the above is just another variant of believing the story that the past is real.  there's no way to get out of these dead ends that any mesmerizing form of past will lead to and away from the ruse that "past" is real.

wanting to lay in bed and take pleasure in the mulching design that is turning out so nicely.  resisting that relapse and the gone for now "how can i not think of other things".  what is now without a thought of what it is?  which would always be part of the thread of some story.  for that matter, what is acceptance?  there's different stories that can be carved out of a whole from which many perspectives can be stepped into.  I can accept THAT!

now that's a whole 'nother of the same thing!