Ariadnes Thread counselling

 

I was reading Thomas Merton, well actually a book he had put together on the wisdom of the desert fathers (and mothers). And one thing led to another I came up with a whole host of things on the web, quotes from a lot of people. One was something about ‘if you are going over things that have happened then you are living in the past, if you are worrying about what is to come you are living in the future, but if you concentrate on what is happening to you in the now you are living in the moment’.   I thought about this for some time and can see some truth in it. I know that I will often not so much worry about things I am going to do but “big them up”, over think them and then become disappointed that they will never meet my expectations. So, I don’t do them. This seems to be over living through the future in not just living in a future.   I would like to think that I do live a bit more in the moment than that but probably don’t. I also came across a challenge to not be in any w...