"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

Future, Past, Present

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"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

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"The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present."

Present, Reason, Want

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

Technology, People, Universe

"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."

Attention, Ego, Focus, Nothing

"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."

Attitude, Faith, Truth, Open

"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

Society, Inheritance, Parents, Principles

"The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile."

People,

"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."

Faith, Nature, Religion, God

"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command."

Love,

"Saints need sinners."

Religion, Saints

"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."

Creativity, Idea, Buddhism, Being, Law

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"If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Future, Thought, Well-Being, Examination

"Science Non Fiction/ Fantasy = Future."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Future, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"Don't waste our children's future on man's past."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Future, Children, Hope, Responsibility

"Trying to see the face of the future? Know ye not that the future has infinite faces?"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Future, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"However much things have been said in the past, there will be always something new to be said in the future!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Future, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Future, Choice, Change, History

"Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Future, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Future, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Wishes are memories coming from our future!"

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Future, Memories, Life, Hope

"But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future..."

John Green, American Author

Future, Life, Time, Planning