from Sieze the Day p 203 by W. Norman Cooper read by Val Schorre Jesus tells us that the kingdom of God is within. The kingdom is within and must be found there; and this kingdom is found through your God-given, intuitive Awareness. This kingdom can be gained only in the present acceptance, through faith, of all that is of true value for your individual identity. The kingdom can never be gained by needlessly looking back, because it is gained only by accepting all that is of true value of the past as your present experience.

To spend time worrying about--or unduly thinking about--the past, shuts you out from the kingdom. Jesus said: "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Once you have set your hand to the plough--once you have begun to search for and find that which is of true value--you need no longer dwell on the past or look back to the past. The kingdom of God is the Now experience and must be accepted and shared as the Now experience.