FUTURE
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn’t work.
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
I can’t tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can’t tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
I’m interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn’t survive and I’m examining closely the reasons they failed.
Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn’t exist in the present here and now.
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.