He said...Forget everything, forget your biography and just Be-discover yourself in this way, in the shining light of the present moment. "How can I stay myself if I willingly forget all that I was?"  he replied..."The important stuff stays."

     I heard a man say once, "You already are everything you're ever going to be...I know that must be a disappointment to you but it's true."
 The good news is you don't need to add anything to you, you already have everything you need. The object now is to remove everything from you that keeps you from acting on what you already are.
In the beginning of my life I was this perfect magnetic sphere, beautiful and shiny, positively glowing with beautiful energy. Then I slowly but surely rolled it through a long series of junkyards, until I could no longer see what I once was. I only saw the junk. When I finally hit bottom and was borderline suicidal and my addiction to chemical peace of mind had taken it's toll I found my way into a group of spiritually-minded people who specialized in treating malady's such as mine.
     They couldn't see the junk, all they saw was the perfect spherical magnet that I could no longer see. They showed me how to remove the junk. They told me that I didn't come into this world, I came from it. I was a child of whatever force of spirituality that I identified with and that I had a right to be here. I had thought that my addictions were because of the harsh emotional life I had led up until that point, I soon learned that I had been treating a bio-psycho-social and spiritual malady with chemicals and distilled spirits that would have only responded to a spiritual remedy. 
     James Allen says in his little volume "As a Man Thinketh" written in 1892 that "Mind is the infallible weaver of destiny; thought is the thread, good and evil deeds are the warp and woof, and the web, woven upon the loom of Life, is character." 
     The thoughts I had carried so long were resulting in deeds that attracted the junk to my sphere of life, these thoughts and acts created my character, and I wove them through the only life I have, until all I saw was the shoddy garment I thought I was, and the evil corroding thread of fear shot through the fabric of my existence. 
     Today I honor the decision to submit my will to a greater law of being by letting go of the biography of my past life. I now realize that thoughts cannot be kept  secret, they rapidly crystallize into habit, and the habits solidify into circumstance. I cannot travel within and stand still without.
I will become as small as my controlling desire or as great as my dominant aspiration. 
     I know I cannot control the thoughts that come into my head, some days it's like Grand Central Station, with trains of thought coming and going in rapid succession. I have come to find that I do have control over which thoughts I choose to ride out of the Station, that I am not the sum total of my thinking. Mindful Meditation is akin to watching your thoughts, letting them come in, acknowledging that they are just thoughts, and then letting those go that do not serve the Vision that I cherish in my heart.
     Today I have had a different experience with the memories of my past, I honor the present by not attaching the junk of my past to my life in such a way that I am re-living it over and over. My past exists only in my mind, amends have been made and as a result my perception of my past has changed, I no longer see it as junk, it is a tool with which I may help others to avert the suffering and misery that I once experienced. It has become an asset. 
     Like the man said..."The important stuff stays".