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There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. the important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.
-Daisaku Ikeda
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There’s No Need For Us To Be

Daisaku Ikeda
There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. the important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.
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The past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. the past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the future is, in all things, our friend. in the past is no hope; the future is both hope and fruition. the past is the text-book of tyrants; the future is the bible of the free. those who are solely governed by the past stand like lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
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And there's a wonderful parable in the new testament: the sower scatters seeds. some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. but some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?
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The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. to look to the future we must first look back upon the past. that is where the seeds of the future were planted. i never think of the future. it comes soon enough.
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