I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Yoga is a vision for a harmonious future for humanity. It is an "stage" i.e. a state of mind not "system".

I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.