Quotes About Past

Para el ego, el momento presente casi no existe. Lo único que se considera importante es el pasado y el futuro. Esta inversión total de la verdad es la causante de que en su "modalidad ego", la mente sea tan disfuncional. Está siempre preocupada de mantener el pasado vivo porque sin él ¿quién es usted? Se proyecta constantemente hacia el futuro para asegurar su supervivencia y para buscar algún tipo de alivio o de realización en él.

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.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now;

A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth.

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 that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional.

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 premordial 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.

You may think that you need more time to understand the past or become free of it, in other words, that the future will eventually free you of the past. This is a delusion. Only the present can free you of the past. More time cannot free you of time.

The past lives in you as memories, but memories in themselves are not a problem. In fact, it is through memory that we learn from the past and from past mistakes. It is only when memories, that is to say, thoughts about the past, take you over completely that they turn into a burden, turn problematic, and become part of your sense of self. Your personality, which is conditioned by the past, then becomes your prison.

Nothing 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?

grievance is a strong negative emotion connected to an event in the sometimes distant past that is being kept alive by compulsive thinking, by retelling the story in the head or out loud of "what someone did to me" or "what someone did to us." A grievance

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.

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

Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present.

Any lesson from the past becomes relevant and is applied now. Any planning as well as working toward achieving a particular goal is done now.

As you become more conscious of your present reality, you may suddenly get certain insights as to why your conditioning functions in those particular ways — for example, why your relationships follow certain patterns — and you may remember things that happened in the past or see them more clearly.

the negative and the positive polarities are faces of the same coin, are both part of the underlying pain that is inseparable from the mind-identified egoic state of consciousness. 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 mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain — this is what I want to talk about now.

The mind 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 compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form.

Je mehr gemeinsame Vergangenheit eine Beziehung hat, umso gegenwärtiger musst du sein, wenn du nicht gezwungen werden willst, immer wieder diese Vergangenheit zu leben.

tendrá elección. Nadie elige la disfunción, el conflicto, el dolor. Nadie elige la locura. Ocurren porque no hay suficiente presencia en usted para disolver el pasado, suficiente luz para disipar las tinieblas.

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

If you delve into the past, it will become a bottomless pit: There is always more. You may think that you need more time to understand the past or become free of it, in other words, that the future will eventually free you of the past. This is a delusion. Only the present can free you of the past. More time cannot free you of time. Access the power of Now. That is the key.

The accumulation of time in the collective and individual human mind also holds a vast amount of residual pain from the past.

the pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living past in you, and if you identify with it, you identify with the past.