How can we view the statement that “life must be understood backwards but must be lived forwards" from a Buddhist perspective?

Soren Kierkegaard [once wrote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard#The_Journals_of_S.C3.B8ren_Kierkegaard.2C_1840s) , > - *Det er ganske sandt, hvad Philosophien siger, at Livet maa forstaaes baglænds. Men derover glemmer man den anden Sætning, at det maa leves forlænds.* - It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. - Journals IV A 164 (1843) - See Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, by Dermot Moran (2002) - Variants: - We live forward, but we understand backward. - Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. How can we view this statement from a Buddhist Perspective?