“Now is a bearable burden. What buckles the back is the added weight of the past’s mistakes and the future’s fears.”

“What is now in the past was once in the future”

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”

“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight, the weight we carry is love.”

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”

“Hate comes from the past, fear from the future. Pain and pleasure are now, and therefore their own trap.”

“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”

“If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and […] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.”

“We all gaze back into our past, to recall fond memories; the mistakes and errors we made, so we shall not repeat them in the present or the future.”

“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”