Forgetfulness Quotes

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Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. — Rajneesh
True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty. — C.S. Lewis
Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense… — Roger N. Walsh
Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again and again when… — M. J. Ryan
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold… — Zane Grey
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal… — David Truman
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for… — Pope Leo XIII
It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on,… — Mary Antin
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. — Chaim Herzog
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. — Arthur Helps
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in… — Arthur Machen
Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls. — Mark Dever
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Â Strange and wonderful chords awake… — D. H. Lawrence
Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action… — Anandamayi Ma
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you… — Joseph Priestley
I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am,… — Neville Goddard
The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed.… — Unknown Author
I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music.Â Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books… — Ernst Bacon

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