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People imprisoned in their thoughts often miss the power of the present moment. Tolle explains that forgiving each instant frees us more than trying to erase the past. He also shows that our true identity lives in alert awareness, not in the story we tell ourselves about yesterday.

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“why Human should not look at the past?”

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The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.

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“the past cannot prevail against the power of the Now.”

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Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

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Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in…

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“You have a name, a past, a life situation, a future. But in one essential respect, you are not the same person…

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When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need…

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For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your…

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The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

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...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

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I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more…

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If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack…

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The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if…

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There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives…

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When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what…

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Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to…

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Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the…

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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point…

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Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from…

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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all…

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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.…

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“What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember…

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To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,…

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Without perceiving things through the old filter of past conditioning and conceptualization, one can sense the universe is intensely alive. Even so-called…

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“So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.”

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True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

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Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

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You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

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To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

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When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises,…

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The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

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The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

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The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in…

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Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and…

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To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts…

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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over…

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If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and…

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Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

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