Joy and Empowerment

We can feel stuck by past decisions, when really we are innocent, innocent, innocent, and perfectly free in every given moment to choose joy. It's simply a matter of realizing that the past is no longer with us. We aren't bound by it, because it isn't real.

Any prior decisions or choices we may or may not have made back then are gone, no more substantial than smoke from an extinguished candle. AT NO TIME DOES THE PAST HAVE ANY POWER OVER THE NOW, and how we are living.

Within each now moment, within every instant, we have the opportunity to choose joy. Guilt and regret have no function because they exist no where except in our own heads. Any residual pull we may feel from them is simply habit.

There will never be any situation without hope. We always have some inkling that if we simply turn within, we can go back to joy. It's not like we don't know where joy is. We always know. It's right there inside us all the time. It's not like we're floundering anywhere, ever, except in our own heads.