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With each passing moment i'm becoming part of the past. there is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
-Haruki Murakami
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With Each Passing Moment I'm Becoming Part

Haruki Murakami
With each passing moment i'm becoming part of the past. there is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
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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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But goethe tells us in his greatest poem that faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "stay, thou art so fair." and our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. change is the law of life. and those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.
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To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. the idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. if you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. you can attain many insights by looking into the past. but you are still grounded in the present moment.
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