Tag: Memory
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The Wound of Time – 2: Memory and the False Redemption of the Past
We often turn to memory in search of redemption. We revisit the past — through recollection, analysis, even therapy — hoping to find answers, healing, clarity. We try to make sense of what happened, to piece together a self from what we remember, or to change how the past affects us now. Memory, in this…
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Know Thyself – 5: Memory, Loss, and the Illusion of the Vanishing Self
“All that is yours shall return to you, not as you remember it, but as it is.” In the experience of memory, we encounter both presence and absence.The beloved face, the longed-for moment, the words once spoken, they appear again, but only as images, pale echoes of what once was. We say things like, “She’s…
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It Is What It Is 