Freedom From Past Quotes

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.

Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.

You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.

It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

We should never remain hostages of our past.

Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at and what you're doing. It's one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.

..there is hope. That's the marvelous thing about being human. We can change our future. We need not be enslaved by the experiences of the past. We can learn to love even when we have not received love.

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.