"Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well."
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"Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are"
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"I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself."
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"When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions."
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"Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well."
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"Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human."
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"I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices."
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"I don't think I remember my first memory."
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"Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on."
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"To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend."
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"In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain."
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"For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory."
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"Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways."
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"Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past."
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"When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything."
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"Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence."
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"I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up."
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"Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on a spectrum with great pain at one end and extreme pleasure at the other. Once completed, the memory of that experience is tagged to either pain or pleasure, and it continues to exist in our bodymind."
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"Affluence, unboundedness, and abundance are our natural states. We need only to restore the memory of what we already know."
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"The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies. The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they'll forget."
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