Our Past Quotes - Page 7

• As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Voice

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• Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not yet been achieved in reality...Preferences tend to attack one form of discrimination with another...Affirmative action encourages a victim-focused identity, and sends the message that there is more power in our past suffering than in our present achievements.

  Shelby Steele

  Past, Reality, Giving

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• The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Records

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• All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Dna

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• The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.

  John Cowper Powys

  Spiritual, Mistake, Past

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• When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Girlfriend, Hard Times, Past

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• You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Moving, Past, Looks

  "Caroline Wozniacki - First Round". Interview, www.wimbledon.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Acceptance, Past

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 09, 2011

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• We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.

  Sam Wineburg

  Kids, Past, Grandparent

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• As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

  Debbie Ford

  Past, Creative, Energy

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• Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.

  Caroline Myss

  Hurt, Mean, Caring

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.204, Harmony

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• Believe in your potential, not your past.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Encouragement, Attitude

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• By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhist, Yoga

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• Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

  Anna Funder

  Past, Grit, Pearls

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.162, Granta Books

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• Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Courage, Pain, Past

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The things we have in common from our past, long past, are often in my mind. Now that it is all over bar the final destruction of the weapons I look forward to the freedom to lay bare my experiences unfettered by codes now redundant.
  This is the only freedom left to me and those Republicans of like mind.

  Dolours Price

  Past, Long, Mind

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• It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter'.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Past, Doe, Culture

  "VS Naipaul withdraws from Turkish event after row over Islam comments" by Benedicte Page, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2010.

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• The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then — but from that moment on — will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Fighting, Blessing, Past

  "The Jewish Writings".

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• It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

  Livy

  Past, Errors, Easier

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 30,

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• There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Country, Religious, Responsibility

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• To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
  is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past.
  The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more
  you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Prayer, Past, Offering

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• There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep
  seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We
  think that there is something hiding reality and that
  this must be destroyed before reality is gained.
  How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh
  ... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day
  you laugh is also here and now.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Reality, Thinking

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• Power is knowing your past.

  Spike Lee

  Past, Knowing, Experience

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• To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Mistake, Past

  "Confinement and Ethnicity".

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• But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Past, Forgiving, Looks

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