You can imagine your future.

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” ~ Frederick Keonig

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. - William James

 

The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.

To "single out" is to "make alone," and thus make lonely. God did not do this to you. ACiM Text - Chapter Thirteen - The Guiltless World - Section 4 The Fear of Redemption

"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it," said Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. "Picture yourself vividly as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be."

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us. - Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.

Bishop W(illiam) C(onnor) Magee (1821 – 1891 ) "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." – W.C. Magee – 1868

"You can imagine your future," says Henry J. Kaiser, who attributes much of his success in business to the constructive, positive use of creative imagination. Henry J. Kaiser has said that each of his business accomplishments was realized in his imagination before it appeared in actuality. Henry John Kaiser (1882 – 1967 )

Money, influence and position are as nothing compared with brains, principle, energy and perseverance. - Orison Swett Marden

 "Now" has no meaning to the ego. The present merely reminds it of past hurts, and it reacts to the present as if it were the past. It dictates your reactions to those you meet in the present from a past reference point, obscuring their present reality. The shadowy figures from the past are precisely what you must escape. They are not real, and have no hold over you unless you bring them with you. They carry the spots of pain in your mind, directing you to attack in the present in retaliation for a past that is no more. And this decision is one of future pain. Unless you learn that past pain is an illusion, you are choosing a future of illusions and losing the many opportunities you could find for release in the present. The Holy Spirit teaches that you always meet yourself, and the encounter is holy because you are.

The Holy Spirit interprets time's purpose as rendering the need for time unnecessary. He regards the function of time as temporary, serving only His teaching function, which is temporary by definition. His emphasis is therefore on the only aspect of time that can extend to the infinite, for now is the closest approximation of eternity that this world offers. It is in the reality of "now," without past or future, that the beginning of the appreciation of eternity lies. For only "now" is here, and only "now" presents the opportunities for the holy encounters in which salvation can be found.

If you accept your function in the world of time as one of healing, you will emphasize only the aspect of time in which healing can occur. Healing cannot be accomplished in the past. It must be accomplished in the present to release the future. This interpretation ties the future to the present, and extends the present rather than the past. ACiM Text - Chapter Thirteen - The Guiltless World - Section 5 The Function of Time

Arlo Guthrie — Alice's Restaurant lyrics included “Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction”.

“Shovels and rakes and implements of destruction” were pretty much all the US found in Iraq the second time around.

CBC Radios’s Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap played it Saturday night. See also: The Guess Who, Bachman–Turner Overdrive

Arlo Guthrie - Motorcycle Song

I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorcycle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorcycle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy-----cle

What does the pickle mean: listen to learn: