The separation between past, present and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.
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Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.
Only the man who has outgrown the stages of consciousness belonging to the past, and has amply fulfilled the duties appointed for him by his world, can achieve full consciousness of the present. To do this he must be sound and proficient in the best sense – a man who as achieved as much as other people, and even a little more. It is these qualities which enable him to gain the next highest level of consciousness.
Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a high degree of pleasure.
The letters I had inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.
For those particular illusions there may well have been a past; it is problematic, however, if there is now much of a future.
The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.
When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use.
But I can’t see anything any more: however much I search the past I can only retrieve scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, nor whether they are remembered or invented.
He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it.
