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“The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present.”

Mind Past Film Experience Our Past Lenses Containing Motion Pictures Past Experiences

Book:Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition

Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition

“We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.”

Light Past Form Fall Vision Shadow Experience Vary

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.”

Thinking Way Littles Whole Seems Past Water Consciousness Experience Depth Lakes Transparent Past Experiences

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce