Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
I think I was a nomad in another life.
I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.
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.
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
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