Quotes About Past

É a horrível força do presente, que esmaga o passado tanto quanto o distancia, e que além disso o falseia sem que o passado possa abrir a boca, nem protestar nem contradizê-lo nem refutar-lhe seja o que for.

We Are Influenced by Past Experiences.

Cómo alcanzaré la vida eterna?" "Ya es la vida eterna. Entra en el presente". "Pero si ya estoy en el presente… o no?". "No" "¿Por qué no?" "´Porque no has renunciado al pasado". "Y ¿por qué iba a renunciar a mi pasado? No todo el pasado es malo…" "No hay que renunciar al pasado porque sea malo, sino porque está muerto". Anthony de Mello.

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

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

Nothing has ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

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

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

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

Usually, the future is a replica of the past. Superficial changes are possible, but real transformation is rare and depends upon whether you can become present enough to dissolve the past by accessing the power of the Now.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? It constantly projects itself into the future to ensure its continued survival and to seek some kind of release or fulfillment there.

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, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

Certain things in the past didn't go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you.

U prošlosti se nikada nije dogodilo ništa što bi vas moglo sprije?iti da sada ne budete prisutni. A ako vas prošlost ne može sprije?iti da sada budete prisutni, kakvu onda mo? uop?e posjeduje?

you made a mistake in the past and learn from it now, you are using clock time. On the other hand, if you dwell on it mentally, and self-criticism, remorse, or guilt come up, then you are making the mistake into "me" and "mine": You make it part of your sense of self, and it has become psychological time, which is always linked to a false sense of identity.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. And what is a grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our future goals determine which actions we take in the present.

If you think you are so enlightened," Ram Dass said, "go and spend a week with your parents." That is good advice. The relationship with your parents is not only the primordial relationship that sets the tone for all subsequent relationships, it is also a good test for your degree of Presence. The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited. So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.

The egoic mind is completely conditioned by the past. Its conditioning is twofold: It consists of content and structure.

For the ego to survive, it must make time -- past and future -- more important than the present moment. The ego cannot tolerate becoming friendly with the present moment, except briefly just after it got what it wanted. But nothing can satisfy the ego for long. As long as it runs your life, there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.