"You won't recognize your genius aspect if you've been conditioned to believe that you should accept your lot in life, think small, and not aim too high in order to avoid disappointment." Wayne Dyer

 

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The more attention you give to the past, the more you energize it, and the more likely you are to make a "self" out of it.

Don't misunderstand: attention is essential, but not to the past. Give attention to the present; give attention to your behavior, to your reactions, moods, thoughts, emotions, fears, and desires as they occur in the present. ...

You will observe that the future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety.

Both are illusory.

Eckhart Tolle - from his book The Power of Now