Adrian Forty on forgetfulness
Adrian Forty2 quotes“Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.”
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Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
Bayazid BastamiBayazid Bastami Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.
Adrienne MonnierAdrienne Monnier Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
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