Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.
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If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
We think of our future as anticipated memories.
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
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