We have a tendency to live out of the past and to limit different experiences and the people we encounter today to what we expect of them. In this way we lose any sense of wonder or newness

The day you teach the child the name of the bird,

the child will never see that bird again.

Krisnamurti

Abba Poemen said about Abba Pior that every single day he made a fresh beginning.

Sayings of the Desert Fathers