Quotes about past
past names identity
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 inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form. Eckhart Tolle
past ego mind
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. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?
past keys needs
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 is the key. Now is the key.
past psychological-needs identity
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment
past mind facts
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, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.
past needs
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...
past essence knowing
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 confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.
past quality moments
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 with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.
past mind painful
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.
past stories moments
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.
past needs moments
Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.
past forgiving important
Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.
past missing power-of-now
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
past finding-yourself power-of-now
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
past balance losing
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.
past space creative
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 into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.
past illumination mind
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment. Elif Safak
past curiosity return
The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each. Elie Wiesel
past government criminals
It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue
past my-past impossibility
Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
past want my-past
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
past light done
I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. Edward Sapir
past strategy appeals
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. Edward Said
past years white
The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out. Conan O'Brien
past two race
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past. E. V. Lucas
past
The future has a lot to do with the past. Dwight Yoakam
past voice together
Yes, it's true - I love the roar of the crowd. When the fans are with you, their voices come together in a big booming rush of sound that you can actually feel in your body - almost like a wave that lifts you and carries you past your own limits. Dwyane Wade
past drug ugly
Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly. Courtney Love
past three-things three
...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. Anne Lamott
past people looks
People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried. Anna Chlumsky
past festivals terrible
As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves. Anna Akhmatova
past bags looks
When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open). Andy Roddick
past smell people
I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events. Alber Elbaz