Philip Roth book The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
Source: 1970s, Krishnamurti in India, 1970-71 (1971), p. 56
Context: So you must ask this question, put this question to yourself, whether your mind can be empty of all its past and yet retain the technological knowledge, your engineering knowledge, your linguistic knowledge, the memory of all that, and yet function from a mind that is completely empty. The emptying of that mind comes about naturally, sweetly without bidding, when you understand yourself, when you understand what you are. What you are is the memory, bundle of memories, experiences, thoughts. When you understand that, look at it, observe it; and when you observe it, see in that observation that there is no duality between the observer and the observed; then when you see that, you will see that your mind can be completely empty, attentive, and in that attention you can act wholly, without any fragmentation.
Philip Roth book The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988)
Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer
Word Play (1974)
“Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.”
Joan Didion book Blue Nights
Source: Blue Nights
“Use memories. Do not let memories use you.”
Deepak Chopra (1946) Indian-American physician, public speaker and writer
“Memory and dust, he thought, link us to the past.”
Clifford D. Simak book Time and Again
Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter XLIII (p. 224)