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A sure sign, symptom, cause and effect of mental illness is focusing most attention on the shortest component of time.
The present is the shortest component of time. We already know this. We know the past is much longer than the present. We also know the future is much longer than the present.
We also know the past is more certain and more reliable than both the present and the future. Compared to the present, the past, as a source of information, is longer, more certain and more reliable. We have been given this resource and the ability to examine it, reexamine it and understand it. The past is a way of knowing. The memory in our cells and in our brains is hard drive storage space. It is there for us to use so we can access the past as a tool to assist in the workings of today's thought processes.
If we only use the present as a resource, we have very little to work with. We must use all three components of time simultaneously - the past, the present and the future.
Continuation Of Time
Today is not a new day. Today is just a continuation of time. Today is yesterday's display. Yesterday gives birth to today just as the past gives birth to the present. Today contains yesterday's DNA. Today comes out of yesterday and exists because of yesterday.
The present contains past DNA. The present comes out of the past and exists because of the past.
These things must be so. It is the only way for today's present experience, today's present life and today's present time to continue. Everything is part of the process, sequence and motion of a Continuing Creator.
Without the past and the future being involved in present thought processes there is no conscious connection to promise...to punishment...to problem...to solution...to salvation...to health...to peace...to paradise...
Without the past and the future being involved in present thought processes, there is no consciousness of building on the past, repairing the past or constructing a future with living conditions suitable for Creation.
The influence of everything is passed on. What we are working with right now today in the present and dealing with right now today in the present, is the past and the future. Everything that exists in the present had to have come from somewhere. It did. It came from the past.
Everything that exists in the present must be going somewhere. It is. It is headed for the future.
Time Must Be Properly Understood
If comprehension of anything is not comprehensive, this lack of awareness causes thought processes to operate suboptimally, which is counter to understanding, healing and evolution.
