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“If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.”

Ifs Should Past Fame Blessed Fortune Fruit Rewards Seeds Dharma Being Blessed Great Reward

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.”

Past Crime Seeds Brutality

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.”

“The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.”

Ifs Moments Able Past Certain Rounds Seeds Live In The Present

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell