Quotes about past
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. Eckhart Tolle
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 nine
The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning. Brian Ferneyhough
past illusion said
But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5 Brian Greene
past years super-bowl
Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was. Brett Favre
past needs remember
Remember, the past need not become our future as well. Brandon Sanderson
past order years
Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years. Archilochus
past blue cnn
The Mars Rover sent back stunning photos [last week] indicating the past presence of water. The pictures show tiny splotches of blue on the Red Planet. The other theory is that the satellite dish on the rover accidentally picked up CNN's election coverage. Argus Hamilton
past needs sugar
Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me. Aretha Franklin
past years phones
For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online. Anthony Weiner
past together jazz
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. Ben Okri
past knows
The past is all we know of the future. Barbara Kingsolver
past slingshots culture
Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
past mind mountain
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force. Bayard Taylor
past emotional creative
[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . . Barbara Hepworth
past tamed controlled
The past can be tamed and controlled. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison