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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 on in your…
- When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence…
- The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.
- True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
- You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
- To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment
- Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future,…
- There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made,…
- Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it…
- Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and…
- To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact…
- When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of…
- When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and…
- The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful,…
- Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.
- To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
- Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come…
- The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
- Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation…
- To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We…
- When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
- Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is…
- When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are…
- If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your…
- There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach