The Weight of our Past and Present

Encountered a compelling passage in my reading today:

Every one of us here present is now exactly what his past life has made him. Our present thoughts, feelings, mental habits, good and bad, are the effects of what we have done or left undone, of cherished impressions, of passions indulged or repressed, of pursuits vigorously embraced or willingly abandoned. And so our past mental and spritual history has made us what we are, so we are at this very moment making ourselves what we shall be.

Henry Parry Liddon (1829-1890) quoted from his sermon, "The First Five Minutes After Death," from Great Sermons of the World