„You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.“

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— Tania Blixen

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Tania Blixen4

dänische Schriftstellerin 1885 - 1962

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— Gregory Maguire, buch Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

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„The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.“

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— Dan Millman American self help writer 1946

„Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.“

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— Nicholas Sparks, buch Safe Haven

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„If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.“

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— William James American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist 1842 - 1910

„The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.“

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— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952

„Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt“

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— Christopher Moore, buch Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

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„The tenth penetration is, "All times penetrate one time. One time penetrates all times — past, present, and future. In one second, you can find the past, present, and future."“

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— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926

Thích Nhất Hạnh here quotes and interprets the "Ten Penetrations" of the Avatamsaka Sutra
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Kontext: The tenth penetration is, "All times penetrate one time. One time penetrates all times — past, present, and future. In one second, you can find the past, present, and future." In the past, you can see the present and the future. In the present, you can find the past and future. In the future, you can find the past and present. They "inter-contain" each other. Space contains time, time contains space. In the teaching of interpenetration, one determines the other, the other determines this one. When we realize our nature of interbeing, we will stop blaming and killing, because we know that we inter-are.

„The real is the present, conceived not as a mathematical point between the present and the past, but as the union of present and past in a duration or permanence that is at the same time change. Thus the past as past and the future as future do not exist at all, but are purely ideal; the past as living in the present and the future as germinating in the present are wholly real and indeed are just the present itself. It is because of the presence of these two elements in the present… that the present is a concrete and changing reality and not an empty mathematical point.“

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— R. G. Collingwood British historian and philosopher 1889 - 1943

Quelle: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 149. as cited in: Jonathan Gorman, "The transmission of our understanding of historical time." Historia Social y de la Educación 1.2 (2012): 129-152.