“The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.”

“The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.”

“To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.”

“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.”

“(…) time is not an illusion, but the flow of time is. So is change. In spacetime, the future exists and the past doesn’t disappear.”

“Identity is not taste or fashion; it has nothing to do with what we’ve purchased in the past or want to buy in the future. Identity comes from making real choices that force you to decide what is true, fair, and just. Identity is not given to you; it’s earned by your life experiences.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”

“That work pride, that ridiculous work pride has put an end to his illusions, with those few illusions that he still had since at school they promised him a magnificent future just for entering university.”