Quotes About Past

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Anyway, that was all a long time ago.' 'So was the Big Bang,

Now my future is all behind me …

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

We enter into each moment holding hands with a future composed of infinite possibilities and a past composed of infinite realities.

Memories are nothing but ghosts in the corners of our minds.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".

In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.

You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

Awareness is all about restoring your freedom to choose what you want instead of what your past imposes on you.

Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self conscious young adult) who no longer exists.

This means that the search for security and certainty is actually an attachment to the known. And what's the known? The known is our past. The known is nothing other than the prison of past conditioning. There's no evolution in that — absolutely none at all. And when there is no evolution, there is stagnation, entropy, disorder, and decay. Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom

We all owe emotional debts to the past, in the form of feelings we couldn't allow ourselves to express. The past isn't over as long as these debts go unpaid. You don't have to return to the person who made you angry or afraid, with the intention of revising how the past turned out. For that person, the impact can never be the same as it is for you. The purpose of getting rid of emotional debt is to find your place in the present.

Working on your deep psychological issues opens the possibility for psychological freedom, making you independent of your past and the scars you carry around with you. These are meaningful choices that go beyond the limited definition of stress management, yet it's this kind of change that transforms someone's life.

Uncertainty, on the other hand, is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. Uncertainty means stepping into the unknown in every moment of our existence. The unknown is the field of all possibilities, ever fresh, ever new, always open to the creation of new manifestations. Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just the stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

Past, present and future are illusions, or to put it another way, to separate past, present, and future is an illusion.... The present is the opening in time...

Whatever the mind thinks of, that alone it sees. What people call fate or divine will is nothing other than action from the past acting upon itself. Even as motion is inherent in air, manifestation is inherent in consciousness.

Despite habit and numbness, a person can find the beginning of the road, and if one has courage, the whole enormous load of fear -- the dead weight of the past -- can be shed.

Whatever you most fear- abandonment, rejection, failure, loss, humiliation, has already occurred to you. The threats you perceive around you now, or coming at you in the future are the long shadow being cast by your past.

Psychologically, stress results whenever anxiety about the future or regrets about the past are invoked.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

The anatomy of what happens to each of us is shadowed and affected by what came before, and I was conditioned as a child to live with fear and worry.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.