Monday, September 8, 2008

Do you remember?

"For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/science/05brain.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."
-Aeschylus

"Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."
-Tobias Wolff

"An angel has no memory.
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-Terry Southern
"Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory."
-Albert Schweitzer

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali:

1.5
Vrittayah pancatayah klishta aklishta:
Thought-forms are categorized into five varieties, of which some are painful and others are non-painful (neutral).

1.6
Pramana viparyaya vikalpa nidra smritayah: These (the categories) are: Correct knowing; Incorrect knowing; Imagination; Sleep; Memory.

1.11
Anubhuta-vishayasampramoshah smritih: Memory is the recollecting or retaining of previously experienced impressions.