I live and move in this mortal world, and yet (you tell me) three centuries have passed since what is called my death.

To me it seems as if I had but slept through a night, and were awake again.
Nor can I tell what has happened--what my life and thoughts have been--during this long lapse of time.

Yet it must be that I live another life: I cannot rest in extinction.

Three times you have called me forth; yet whence I come hither, or whither I return, is unknown to me." "There is a memory of the spirit," replied Kamaiakan, "and a memory of the body.

They are separate, and cannot communicate with each other.
Such is the law." "Yet I remember, as if it were yesterday, the things that were done when Montezuma was king.