Proust On Memory and Madeleines

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November 9, 2018 a project of ServiceSpace Love is space and time measured by the heart. - Marcel Proust - Proust On Memory and Madeleines "But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more immaterial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection." In this celebrated literary exploration of our evocative, mysterious relationship to memory, Marcel Proust vividly describes the torrent of experience unleashed by one 'memorable' bite of a madeleine, and his attempt at decoding the process. { read more } Be The Change Take a few minutes to fully tune in to your embodied experience right now. Can you recall a moment when a scent, a taste or a sound instantly evoked a whole world of vivid experience within you? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News What It Means to Hold Space & 8 Tips to Do it Well Dan Siegel: The Open Mind One Teacher's Brilliant response to Columbine Are You Walking Through Life in an Underslept State? A Reading List For The Spirit People Helped You Whether You Knew It Or Not When Someone Threw Coffee at My Face Turning Rain, Ice and Trees into Ephemeral Works DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,450 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More