Past - Quotes
Everyone has a past, but that`s just it - it`s in the past. You can learn from it, but you can`t change it.
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
The past is like a broken mirror, as you piece it together you cut yourself. Your image keeps shifting and you change with it.
The flames can not burn away the past. They only make the shadows leap higher.
The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it`s like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off.
It isn`t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It`s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
Time past and time future
Allow but a little consciousness.
To be conscious is not to be in time
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time time is conquered.
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn`t exist and never shall. There is only now.