Are We The Result Of What We Learn ?

"Are we the result of what we learn ?"


" We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can either blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. its always new"


"people aren't used to that way pf thinking. They want everything to stay the same.."


"..and the consequences of that is pain" " we aren't the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be. it's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. you can try to stop time, but it's a complete waste of energy" 


" but there are all kinds of problems i need to resolve now" 
"They lie in what you call the "past" and await a decision to be made in what you call the "future".They clog your mind and slow you down, and won't let you understand the present. If you rely on experiences, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be "their history" "


"it takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems, visit your soul, don't visit your past... "

From "Aleph" By Paulo Coelho.