No way for most of this pufferific tripe. We are indeed forged and formed from all of our pasts, and all of the pasts of all of us. We stand, when we stand on the shoulders of many many fellows, including those of our own past, our own unique being growing, learning, making mistakes, falling getting up again. This quote is a bit dangerous -- in a bad way. It suggests, forget your spouse, your kids, run away with the dashing vagrant of a passsing fancy, because the past is nothing, and only this infatuation is NOW. Silly and utterly dangerous, harmful to many.