Breaking Free From The Past

One of the most important things to be able to do to evolve in life is to be able to be inconsistent with your past. Let me explain:

You've lived a certain way till now. And you've said a bunch of things about who you are, how you live, how you think life should be lived, to different people at different times.

Now as you grow up, as your mind and intellect mature, all these things can change. If you keep holding yourself to how you've lived and what you've said and done in the past, or if you allow people to keep going "but you said this then, but you did this then, ...", you won't be able to move forward. You have to be able to tell yourself and others that you're wiser now, you're clearer now, and move forward. This holds also for any advice you might have given to people from time to time. If you're wiser now, if you would advise differently now, then be inconsistent with the past, advise differently now. Your obligation to be true to your present and future is pressing.

Likewise is the importance of realizing that correctness of feelings, words and actions depend on the circumstances presented to you. For example, the same person can argue for peace in one situation and can find war justifiable in another. But if one decides to be "consistently a pacifist no matter what", he or she traps himself in an unreal consistency.

Develop the ability of sensing and knowing the truth within of what you're saying and doing in every situation presented to you, and have the wisdom to realize that as you grow, as you evolve, you will speak and act differently even if the same situations are presented to you again. Be committed to this ability and wisdom. Being consistent about these is the only consistency worth being obligated to. If you understand this and apply it truthfully to your life (for real and not just to make excuses 😅) then not only will you grow, you won't be bothered or burdened about the world judging you to be "inconsistent".

Are you getting what I'm saying?