Cat On A Stove Top

Past experiences are your teachers, therefore it's important to take them into consideration and learn from them. This is the way you become able to discriminate between positive and negative behaviors. But remembering the past is useful only to a certain extent. It becomes dangerous when you use it as a recurring reference point. In doing this, you give up the courage to try something new, to live in a creative way. If the cat who got burned by sitting on a stove top decides never to sit again, it is not judging the past experience properly. The actual lesson is that it is safe "not" to sit on a stove top. And even a stove top can be safe if it's not hot. Therefore, try to learn something from the deep meaning of the experience, not from its superficial appearance.