past-and-future

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!

even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of"it used to be likes" forever remembering,yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

Let go of the past and cling to the future.

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.

Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.

Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.

Control is an illusion that you must give up.

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.

Find your bones. Believe in what you are.

Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places we leave behind forges our history, and the places we might travel to becomes our mysterious future.

If you take society__ definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.