Megan J. Robinson
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Megan J. Robinson
This is memory’s task of retrospection, to integrate the knowledge that we have, to impute a sense of cause and effect to the events in our lives, and to offer a sense of meaning.
Abby Smith Rumsey • When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
Memory begins to qualify the imagination, to give it another formation, one that is peculiar to the self. … If I were to remember other things, I should be someone else. —N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Suzanne Paola • Tell It Slant, Second Edition
Our sense of who we are depends, in significant part, on our memories. And yet they’re not to be trusted. ‘What is selected as a personal memory,’ writes Professor of psychology and neuroscience Giuliana Mazzoni, ‘needs to fit the current idea that we have of ourselves.’
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
Social remembering: Our own recollection is tied to others with whom we have shared our life.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
The answers to the biggest questions we have about identity, story, and God can only be answered in relation to memory. Without memory, we are forced to rely solely on ideas and suggestions to make sense of who we are, as opposed to the concrete.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
And this story must cross some threshold of coherence. I must be able to produce an integration that informs me of who I am, giving me continuity over time.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
The journey from division to wholeness is one in which we relax our tightly controlled grip on our little-d desires, realizing that they are not our true satisfaction but echoes and foretastes of our ultimate Desire.
Chuck DeGroat • Wholeheartedness
by living by a moral code, over time you trust yourself more. All this noise about what to do, who to be, what to accept in a relationship, only becomes overwhelming if there’s nothing stronger guiding you. Put honesty, loyalty, virtue above all, orient your decisions around that, and you can shut out so much outside influence. You can close down s... See more
Freya India • We Need Moral Direction
our culture fails to give young people clearer moral guidance, I think, for fear of imposing. Parents are our best friends now, they don’t want to nag us about little things like right and wrong. Friends don’t tell each other how to behave. That’s not education’s job. Therapists don’t want to overstep the line. Some might say something vague about ... See more