The nature of life has an assumed direction embedded in it—outward.
And the arc of that outwardness is forward.
The only way out of something is forward. Mining the past is a diversion of energy. Though it can be highly informative, even helpful at times, trying to stay there is a waste. What we do now is motivated by what compels us to move forward.
History seems to have an inertia to it—holding on to the past just inhibits the natural flow of things. Each generation indicates this very thing to the prior one through both what it rejects and what it accepts.
We tap into our outward energy by engaging the relationship between what is and what can be—to what calls us forward, to what we can do to nudge things closer to how things should be.
