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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies is a 2016 non-fiction book by David Rieff, published by Yale University Press.Rieff argues the contrarian position that sometimes history, including past mass atrocities, is better forgotten than commemorated: [1] "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present".
Vergangenheitsbewältigung describes the attempt to analyze, digest and learn to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust.The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
These Bible verses for a grieving heart can provide comfort and strength to help you, a family member, or a friend mourn and cope with the death of a loved one. ... 19 easy 5-ingredient snacks ...
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This is brought about by putting all thoughts and desires under a "cloud of forgetting," and thereby piercing God's cloud of unknowing with a "dart of longing love" from the heart. This form of contemplation is not directed by the intellect, but involves spiritual union with God through the heart: For He can well be loved, but he cannot be thought.
"Our God, Our Help in Ages Past" (or "O God, Our Help in Ages Past") is a hymn by Isaac Watts in 1708 that paraphrases the 90th Psalm of the Book of Psalms. It originally consisted of nine stanzas; however, in present usage the fourth, sixth, and eighth stanzas are commonly omitted to leave a total of six (Methodist hymn books also include the ...
The Daoist Zhuangzi had the earliest recorded reference to zuowang.One of the (c. 3rd century BCE) core Zhuangzi, "Inner Chapters" (6, 大宗師) mentions zuowang "sitting forgetting" meditation in a famous dialogue between Confucius and his favorite disciple Yan Hui, who [11] "ironically "turns the tables" on his master by teaching him how to "sit and forget".