61. Emotional attachment – the roadblock on the highway of Intelligence

Your past can become part of your intelligence if you allow it to teach you, if you approach it with pure consciousness, with a witnessing mood, without having positive or negative emotional attachment. Positive emotional attachment means love for that memory. Negative emotional attachment means hatred for that memory. Either way that memory will continue to haunt you. Understand, memory of the past itself is never a problem. Only the emotional attachment to it is the problem.

If it is love for that memory, then you will put it in the 'favorite' file and constantly you will be seeing it. If it is hatred, you will put it in archives or trash. Even if you put it in trash, just because of your hatred for it, it will again and again come back to you in the form of guilt.

Be very clear, your emotional attachment to the past is the first and the last problem in life.