Our thoughts are always changing, our emotions are always changing, our stories are always changing. We're not who we were yesterday or who we will be tomorrow. We're not who we were in childhood or who we will be in old age. If we really look, all these thoughts, emotions, and stories are impermanent and constantly changing. They appear because of the interdependence of certain causes and conditions. These causes and conditions have their own particular time span, and when it's exhausted, then none of these thoughts, emotions, and stories remain. They appear because of the collision of a particular set of causes and conditions.
Sogyal Rinpoche
"The Remembrance of Past Lives from the Tibetan Buddhist Perspective"
On the Sea of Memory
A few memory-related articles that have caught my eye recently:
The Human Ecology of Memory
Memory and Epistemological Problems of Memory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The Beautiful Recollected (Memory and Beauty in Plato's Phaedrus)
