Keeping alive the past is the means used to completely obscure the present and maintain an unbroken continuity of illusion based in the past and stretching to the future.
There is no place for Truth in the ego’s world.
Yet even here Truth cannot be completely obscured, for It waits for you in the present, underneath the loud and incessant chatter of the ego mind, resting in deepest peace.
A quiet mind is an invitation to Truth to enter and claim its Home once again.