fanofVan wrote:
118:1.4 (1295.4) Experience, wisdom, and judgment are the concomitants of the lengthening of the time unit in mortal experience. As the human mind reckons backward into the past, it is evaluating past experience for the purpose of bringing it to bear on a present situation. As mind reaches out into the future, it is attempting to evaluate the future significance of possible action. And having thus reckoned with both experience and wisdom, the human will exercises judgment-decision in the present, and the plan of action thus born of the past and the future becomes existent.
The UB quote which you presented somewhat contradicts your previous statement in another post where you state " - how do we retreat or go back from here? And who wants to? And why? The past is gone...to lament its passing is simply silly...it's GONE! What's the way forward?" -- where I understand it is not an exact association but reminds me of the following.
Where basically what this quote is indicating is that: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (George Santayana), on this case if we don't learn from past mistakes, we are destined to repeat them.
So, what can we learn from this as might be considered as similar as we plow into the future? I for one can see some big repetitions coming in our future if we don't stop and associate the past to what seems to be repeating itself, although by a new name or with subtle differences.