Correct Role of Memory

"The correct role of memory is to store up practical facts for daily
living. Unfortunately, we wrongly use memory to supply us with an
identity based on past experiences. Do not let memory tell you that
you are the same person at this instant that you were five minutes or
twenty years ago, for you are not the same person. Identity does not
continue from day to day, for time is an illusion. Buddha likened man's
true nature to the flame of a candle which renews itself every moment."

                           Esoteric Mind Power, p. 147

"How can we contact this purifying Higher Power? By lifting the veils
of illusion that hang between the human mind and Reality. By seeing
that the veils of the ego-self (thoughts) block the light. 
By seeing this we penetrate into the innermost secret of human happiness, earthly and eternal."

Vernon Howard's Secrets of Life (From New Life Foundation), The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 8, p. 81