past

Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.

A pleasure is only full grown when it is remembered.

As we get older, the future gets shorter and the past gets longer, but the present deepens.

I didn’t look back. I couldn’t. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously “present,” an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be. The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

We only grow by outgrowing

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

If a glimpse of the future is possible, it must come from an intimacy with the present clarified by the great works of the past. 

When you look around, there is always an explanation of love. This world runs on the love principle.  The past, present and future are all one moment.  There is always a chance to learn about love in every moment. 

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.