Alan Watts Quotes, Past Quotes, Listening Quotes

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

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Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Past Quotes

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Past Quotes , Looks Quotes

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Past Quotes , Soul Quotes

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

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Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Book Quotes , Past Quotes

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Past Quotes , Silence Quotes

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

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Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Life Quotes , Past Quotes

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Past Quotes , Gold Quotes

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Past Quotes , Gone Quotes

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Death Quotes , Past Quotes

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Past Quotes , Government Quotes

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Past Quotes , Years Quotes

History, well taught, is the demythologising of the past... Take any important issue of our time - Northern Ireland, Nuclear Disarmament, Race, The Welfare State, South Africa - and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

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Tags : Alan Bullock Quotes , Past Quotes , Race Quotes

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Future Quotes , Past Quotes

The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better term. But it’s a concept that’s rarely given a proper explanation. 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.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Karma Quotes , Past Quotes

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Confused Quotes , Past Quotes

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Distance Quotes , Past Quotes