„I have little use for the past and rarely think about it; however, I would briefly like to tell you how I came to be a spiritual teacher and how this book came into existence. Until my thirtieth year, I lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression. It feels now as if I am talking about some past lifetime or somebody else’s life.“

— Eckhart Tolle

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„I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.“
— John Keats
„During these travels he's starting to train me in a most interesting way. We'd be sitting somewhere and I'd say,"Did I ever tell you about the time that Tim and I …"And he'd say, "Don't think about the past. Just be here now."Silence.And I'd say, "How long do you think we're going to be on this trip?"And he'd say, "Don't think about the future. Just be here now."I'd say, "You know, I really feel crumby, my hips are hurting …"“
— Ram Dass
„Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.“
— Ernest Hemingway