Alan Watts Quotes, Real Quotes, Past Quotes

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship. As a result of the U.S.-Mexico War in the 19th century, and the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, half of what was Mexico was severed and became much of the western part of the United States. To add insult to injury, most Americans never knew that, and most Mexicans have never forgotten it.

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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.

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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

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

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Past Quotes , Mind Quotes

I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

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If you wonder what you were doing in the past, look at your body; to know what will happen to you in the future, look at your mind.

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If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

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Lose what? A man only has a soul to be won or lost; apart from his life, he has nothing. Past or future lives do not matter - at the moment you are living this one, and you should do so with silent comprehension, joy and enthusiasm. What you must not lose is your enthusiasm.

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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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

If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Looks Quotes

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now.

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