" Between one heartbeat and the next, a man can dream his entire life; tomorrow will open up in front of him and yesterday will retreat into time’s abyss. There is no better place for personal memories than obscurity. Once lived, the past has very little value. And yet we carry its lifeless body into all future moments, allowing it to crush us with its weight, to identify us, and to speak for us. Even the most capable adults seem reluctant to make a decision without first consulting the past—the corpse—and listening to its endless rebukes. A wise man will ignore such counsel and observe the world from an infinite perspective. "

― Miguel Ruiz , The Toltec Art of Life and Death