“If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.” IfsWayWantLifeBelieveImportantSometimesMatterProblemPastDifferencesFocusReturnWalkingCrisisPatternsFormerPrimariesDistinctionSubtleOver YouDestinationGet BackUsualGet OverIf You BelieveParadoxicalHealth ProblemsReally LivingFormer Life Author:Richard Moss
“Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.” ThinkingLifeInspirationalDreamWaitingAttitudeFormerYour DreamsLatter Author:Hal Elrod
“We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.” MenLifeSuccessCommonDemandExcellenceIntelligenceFormerExcellentLatterBrilliant IdeasCommon ManService Culture Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.” LifeEvilSecretSpecialBenefitsLibraryPrivilegeProtectionFormerErasClockGood LifePresidencyBadgesSecret Service Author:Lawton Chiles
“None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.” MenLifeSelfStrongPleasurePayGreaterHe ManRegretConversationDemandExpectationsAngryEnthusiasmFormerAppetiteImpatientTransientDisagreeableCreditors Author:James Goldsmith
“All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.” WorldWayLifeYearsSoulBodyDivineWillingReturnThousandRiversFormerRealmsThousand YearsPassed AwayForgetful Author:Virgil