“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”

“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”

“Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free.”

“Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“Children - change that to infants - dream of their past lives, remembering; for example, how to walk and talk. They are born with the knowledge of how to think, with the propensity for language. They are guided by memories that they later forget.”

“The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.”

“in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why, remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if, remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me, remember me”

“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”

“The role of past experience is of high importance, but what matters is what one has gained from experience — blind, understood connections, or insight into structural inner relatedness. What matters is how and what one recalls, hoVi he applies what is recalled, whether blindly, in a piece meal way, or in accordance with the situation.”