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."
-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.
Wonderful quotes--the Aeschylus one hits me deepest...memories of good times are supposed to make us feel good...certainly, that's what everyone says, and industries are built around it. And yet, as often, they do the opposite, providing an ideal that the present doesn't seem to live up to....
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