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I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.

Sathya Sai Baba
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Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

Sivananda Saraswati
23

Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

Paramahamsa Yogananda
23

Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, LET IT GO. Don't even remember it!

Rumi
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Surely there is neither past nor future for divinity!

Swami Dayanand Saraswati
23

When anarthas will be removed due to chanting the Holy Name, then Krishna’s form, qualities and pastimes will automatically manifest from the name. There is no need to make an endeavor to artificially remember His form, qualities and pastimes.

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda
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Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything.

Meher Baba
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Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain...

Paramahamsa Yogananda
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I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Alan Watts
21

Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

Buddha
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I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Nelson Mandela
21

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
21

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz
21

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
21

Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

Saint Augustine
21

And we should forget, day by day, what we have done; this is true non-attachment. And we should do something new. To do something new, of course we must know our past, and this is alright. But we should not keep holding onto anything we have done; we should only reflect on it. And we must have some idea of what we should do in the future. But the future is the future, the past is the past; now we should work on something new.

Shunryu Suzuki
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The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

Alan Watts
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If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

Osho (Rajneesh)
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

Ramana Maharshi
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