5. Memory bits and hope-flakes :

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Pursuing our enquiry further, we shall, on analysis of the memory bits and hope-flakes, discover that they have only a reality with reference either to the dead past or unborn future. 
That means the ego in me has no existence in the present moment; it thrives in the burial-ground of the dead hours and in the womb of time.
Swami Chinmayananda.
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