GF Live 7-29-23 Use Painful Thoughts To Remember Your Self

Without our unconscious consent, the past is powerless to punish us in the Now. Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

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How many times have you said to yourself or thought following some kind of problem,

You know,

I learned my lesson this time,

Would you say a lot?

And would you also agree with me that whoever it is that's there at the moment where you hear that voice and the feeling pass through you,

I learned my lesson this time.

Apparently,

Whoever it was that learned the lesson that time wasn't there this time to help you through that condition.

Would you pretty much agree with me on that?

And let's just go ahead and fill on the side.

Yeah,

Would you say that whoever it was that learned the lesson isn't often there when the lesson needs to be remembered when I act against myself?

Kind of amazing,

Really,

When you think how many times over history,

The world says we learned from history.

We haven't learned anything from history.

Our history is forgetting.

Our history is refusing to see that in the moment where we need most to be aware and present to ourselves so that we don't punish ourselves or others,

We're most likely to be nowhere around.

And that's what I want to look at with you today.

There's this old Chinese proverb.

It's delicious.

It says,

Tell me,

I'll forget.

Show me,

I may remember,

But involve me and I'll understand.

Tell me,

I'll forget.

Show me,

I may remember,

But involve me,

I'll understand.

The wisdom in that old proverb is simply saying that,

And this is very important when it comes to spiritual teachings,

In case I need to make that point.

We can sit and pontificate all these powerful ideas till the cows come home.

And we go,

Yeah,

Yeah,

Yeah,

Yeah,

Tell me.

And then what happens?

I forget.

In one ear and out the other,

As my mother used to accuse me of listening to her wisdom.

Show me,

If something can be a little interactive,

That's great.

And I may just remember because it becomes palpable.

I'm present with more than one part of myself.

I'm not just listening.

I may be seeing,

I may be feeling.

But involve me,

Bring me into the experience of that moment of learning,

And I will understand not just the lesson in that moment because it's integrated into the whole of myself,

But the whole of myself is then capable of being present in these moments when the parts of myself before that are drawn away by whatever particular moment snatches my attention and then off I am in that particular identity,

Become oblivious to anything that other parts of myself may have learned,

No matter how infrequent or superficial that may have been.

You get the point,

I trust.

So what if every time you got triggered,

Meaning you got mad,

Upset,

What if you could use the moment of that negative reaction to realize a way to involve yourself in that moment so that for your involvement in it,

Not only would you understand more about the moment,

But you would understand more about yourself as you were brought into that moment by whatever your reaction was,

To understand that idea.

A way to be involved in the moment above and beyond just a superficial,

Always temporary reaction of,

I know that or I don't know that.

So let's take a deep breath all of us.

We're six minutes in.

I trust everybody's here with us that's going to be with us and do try to be on time.

Let's make a transition.

We're going to go into some ideas.

There's not one thing in them that you don't already know,

But have probably forgotten.

So I'm going to show you,

Not just tell you,

I'm going to show you and then as we go through this material,

I'm going to involve you in the possibility of a new kind of process in the moment of some unwanted problem.

So first of all,

This is not widely known,

But you will see that you do know it is true.

There are,

And I'm going to summarize,

There are two kinds of memory,

Two kinds,

Principal kinds of memory.

There is remembering the past experiences we've had in this world.

We all know what that kind of memory is.

I got married,

So forth and so on.

Practical memory,

I live at such and such a place.

Problematic memory,

Those people did this painful thing to me and it comes up all the time.

Physical memories,

These are important,

A memory,

The body has memories,

Each center in our system has memories of a certain type.

When you know when the doctor taps on your knee with that little hammer,

I don't know if they still do that,

And your knee jerks,

That's a memory.

The fact that anything will resist something touching it and pushes back is a kind of memory.

All of those are physical memories and they belong to this world and to this organism.

They are of this world.

Then there are memories of another kind,

Another order.

Those memories of a higher order are very few and far between,

The remembrance of them,

But we've all had what we could simply call aha moments,

A sudden revelation,

A realization,

Maybe a lesson came around 50 times and finally it got in and you realize in that moment that you're not really being taught something that is new and true and beautiful,

But in that moment,

It's more like you've remembered something that was always with you.

You had simply forgotten it.

Through all that stretch of time,

There was a certain understanding that was buried,

Covered up,

That until a certain set of conditions took place along with your willingness to allow the teacher in that moment to present the lesson and you receive it,

The moment you receive the lesson,

You have always known that to be true about yourself and about this world and your possibilities.

Yes or no,

Please.

Everybody on the left.

Do you see it?

Two kinds of memory.

One belongs to this world.

It's in thought,

It's physical,

And there's another kind of memory that has come into this life with us that is waiting to be brought forward so that the first can be last,

Meaning these old memories,

This personality can be put in its proper place and this new capacity to remember the truth of ourselves that is always there with us,

That it might come first and if you will make the crooked places straight.

Instead of these old memories,

This old mind creating everything crooked in our life.

That's the key idea for our gathering today and it can be argued,

Although I don't have time now because let me mention I intend to spend five or ten minutes at the end of this talk opening it up to questions so we can have a little dialogue and then we'll see how that goes.

I want to increase the exchange between us.

The divine,

God,

Love,

Intelligence,

Whatever you want,

By any name,

It wants us to realize and live in this higher form of remembering the truth of ourselves before the moment comes where what we have known is true is obliterated by a reaction.

There are over 500 uses or affiliated meanings to the word remember over 500 times in Scripture,

500 times the word remember in Proverbs.

I just pulled this one out.

The memory of the just is blessed,

But the name of the wicked shall rot.

The memory of the just is blessed.

That means that there is a blessing that belongs to us that is with us all the time,

But that we cannot have until we're able to remember what it is that we have been given as a human being in relationship with this loving intelligence,

With the wisdom that cannot hurt itself,

But it's always in the background.

We need to find a way to bring it to the foreground and that's what we're going to look at.

Transition.

Nice deep breath.

Let's begin to build not just a way that I'm telling you,

But a way that you can see.

I'm showing you certain things now.

Then we'll bring about the involvement part so that we can understand directly.

First,

I've talked about this a number of times.

I hope that you don't have to have it proven to you.

If you question it,

Write it down and then prove it to yourself.

There is no such thing as a negative reaction.

You and I cannot get negative.

It is impossible without that negative reaction being preceded by some form of resistance to the moment.

So that there is always a resistance to a revelation before we become negative about what has been revealed.

That resistance is in this consciousness.

It is built into matter for that matter,

But that resistance is there.

We know to a certain extent,

And I'll prove this in a moment,

That there are things that take place and we're just suddenly filled with negativity.

No,

No,

No,

No.

Well,

The moment doesn't create the no.

The no is somehow intertwined,

Woven into this consciousness in some way that we don't understand and that we are so used to identifying with that instant resistance and then the negative reactions that justify it pointing and blaming.

It never dawns on us that that's there.

So first lesson,

No negative reaction without resistance.

And that's our resistance or that's resistances in us.

The moment doesn't create the resistance.

Next,

There can be no psychological resistance to any moment without something in this consciousness comparing that moment that we perceive to something in our past.

So this is a key idea.

It is impossible to resist a moment that we haven't compared to a moment that is similar to it or to one that we don't want.

Please,

Can you understand that?

In this consciousness,

I walk into a store hoping to get oranges and they don't have Valencia.

They only have Navel.

And I want Valencia for my juice.

And because they don't have what I want,

Meaning I've come in with a desire and I've come in expecting something,

The negativity,

The resistance to that moment doesn't exist without me comparing what it is that I wanted to what it is that I'm getting.

No resistance without comparison.

Comparison doesn't exist without the past,

Which means negative reactions,

Though we do not see them,

Are always the result of a form of some kind of memory.

It is impossible for us to have a negative psychological reaction without some form of memory being triggered in a consciousness that's asleep to itself and that habitually,

Summarily resists anything that doesn't match what it wants or expects from the moment.

This is a key idea.

I trust that you are following me some well,

Somewhat well.

A memory is triggered.

You and I think,

We think,

How should I say it?

When we get triggered,

When we get angry,

Mad,

Boom,

Like that,

I think it's me.

Don't you?

I instantly identify with it.

Ah,

Yes,

Of course.

Boom.

A memory is triggered.

You are not a memory at the level of the world,

At the level of our physical interactions,

Even at the level of the body and its reactions.

You are not the world.

And yet in that moment,

There is this memory,

And the memory doesn't exist without the identity in which it is established.

Ooh,

So many important things.

The memory doesn't exist without the identity within which it is established.

They're actually a singularity.

That's why it's so easy to identify with them.

So,

Boom,

Memory identification,

And that identification is a part of our memory that remembers in that moment how things should or shouldn't be.

Let's make a few examples.

Have you ever walked into a party or a business meeting?

You don't know anybody there.

You walk into a room like that and suddenly you feel anxious.

I won't have time to.

.

.

You could go ahead and throw your yeses up here.

Every answer,

Every one of these questions will have answers.

I just want to show them to you.

Boom.

I'm anxious.

Why am I anxious?

Why should I walk into a room and be anxious?

And the answer is memory.

What kind of memory?

A memory that tells me unless people approve of me or I get the right look,

Then I must be not up to par.

I must be missing the mark somehow.

So,

The longing to be recognized or the fear of being rejected and the fear of being rejected is a memory.

You and I didn't create that.

Somewhere along the line,

Some situation took place and there was a certain pain of being pushed away and then we pushed back.

Fear of rejection is a memory.

So,

I'm anxious when I walk into a room.

Someone says,

Would you like to do something new?

Here's a challenge at work.

Take up a new job.

Learn a new skill.

I like the idea.

But in that moment,

I am definitively somewhat resistance to it.

First idea,

Great.

Sooner or later,

I don't know.

I don't know why.

Memory.

What kind of memory?

Well,

You know,

I've failed so many other times.

Now,

I don't walk around thinking to myself,

I've failed other times.

But if I feel sudden resistance to a challenge,

There can't be any other explanation other than something in me is going,

You better be careful here.

Something bad may happen.

Well,

What does it know about bad that can happen other than something in this body of memories and incidentally,

Not just our physical present memory,

Our consciousness,

Our consciousness of which we are individual instruments,

Is loaded with conditioned memories of all ilk.

So that's all down there in the darkness.

We want to ask somebody out.

Maybe tell somebody how we feel.

Have you ever found reticence in yourself to do that?

Why?

Again,

I don't want to be misunderstood.

Well,

How can I be afraid of being misunderstood?

How can I be afraid of being misunderstood unless there is some pain connected with some past experience,

A memory and a corresponding identity that comes into that moment with me?

Have you ever assumed the worst before it happens?

Have you ever assumed the worst before it happens?

How is that possible?

Negative nillies.

Why?

Why would something in me go,

I don't know.

Why would it do that?

Because I've had enough experiences where the shoe is dropped or what I thought was good was,

And all that can come up in that moment is a certain suspicion.

Suspicion belongs to memory.

Reliving resentments.

Thinking about people that have hurt us.

Then trying to figure out how to get even or punish them.

Where does all that come from?

Memory.

Do you see this?

I want to go on with the material.

How can we be true to ourselves when almost everything that we take to be true about any given moment is what some reaction tells us about it?

How can we be true to ourselves when almost everything we believe is true about ourselves is told to us by a reaction that we have in that moment?

And that reaction is always,

It doesn't exist.

There is no negative reaction again without resistance,

Without this memory.

So literally what is talking to us in these moments when suddenly we're negative and then trying to figure out what to do is this memory identity,

This creature that lives in the darkness of this unconscious nature that only knows to do one thing.

And what it does every time is that consciousness,

That memory,

That sense of self.

Once it's been triggered,

It begins to call out our choices.

It begins to tell us what we can and cannot do,

What our possibilities are.

And all that we are given to do is based in what in those moments?

This is a key idea.

Everything I'm getting ready to do out of that reaction,

Fight or flight,

Every last part of that is there because of what I am given to remember in that moment.

It is not I who remembers to get angry,

To feel threatened,

To run away from anyone that may be rejecting me.

But there is an I,

There is a level of consciousness that is stuffed with these parts of ourselves that when the moment comes,

There is the reaction and the reaction is the first to remember why the reaction is there.

Reactions always justify themselves,

Do they not?

Reactions always justify themselves,

Do they not?

Yes.

I'm explaining to you why.

Because the reaction has an identity and the identity has to be supported and made to feel real so that the reaction then becomes what we are must do.

And the key here is what?

Before I go on,

I'm driving in my car,

Someone cuts me off.

I'm given in that moment a memory about what to do to handle moments like that.

You say something cruel to me,

I'm given a reaction,

A defensiveness,

An attack posture,

An anger,

Assert myself.

I'm given that in that moment by what is telling me that I need to respond this way and everything that's telling me how to respond is a memory from the past,

Belongs to a consciousness that's asleep and that can never resolve any problems because it is the continuation of them.

Memories contribute to the reincarnation of the consciousness that holds them.

Incredibly important to understand that.

Are we on the same page everybody?

If it's true and it is and again,

I have told you,

I've shown you,

Now we have to begin to figure out how are we going to be involved in understanding this so that it can become our understanding and that we can learn to remember what is true in the moment instead of what we are being told is true and what we must do.

Years ago,

And I don't know what book it was in and I'm going to go over it rather quickly because I'm going to run out of time.

I want to be able to have a little dialogue with you.

I wrote a story.

I think it was in Courage to be Free.

Maybe,

I don't know what book,

It doesn't matter.

Dad walks upstairs into his daughter's room and he goes for a very distinct purpose because he's seen over the last several months a certain chaos unfolding in his daughter's room and the chaos that he sees unfolding is that she loves stuffed animals and dad loves to give his daughter what she loves and so she's got like a hundred different stuffed animals and ordinarily,

The agreement was that the stuffed animals would all go into her treasure chest at night and then they'd be brought out in the morning but lately they're everywhere just strewn about and he says to her,

I thought we said you were going to put everything away.

I'm sorry,

Daddy.

He says,

Well,

Maybe,

Sweetheart,

What do you think about this?

What do you think about donating a lot of these stuffed animals to,

You know,

A charity so other children can enjoy them because you have so many of them anyway and she's a little struck by it but another part of her understands the rightness of it and she's beginning to outgrow that.

She says,

You know what?

Okay,

Let's do it.

He says,

All right,

Let's collect everything and see what you've got.

So they start going around.

They put everything in.

Then they start going through this chest of stuffed animals,

Pulling out lions and tigers and bears.

Oh my.

Anyway,

Dad gets to the very bottom of the chest and sitting at the very bottom of the chest,

There's this old owl and he knows because it was his daughter's favorite.

She had named it Solomon that it was her favorite and when he pulled it out,

It kind of shocked him because he forgot it was one of those talking stuffed animals and it goes,

Who do you think you are?

Who do you love most of all?

A talking stuffed owl.

Who do you love?

Which is cute and it shocked him and they both laughed because his daughter saw him have that shock and he says to her,

Sweetheart,

I thought you told me at one point,

I kind of remember that this was your most favorite animal of all that you had.

Is that not true?

Was that not what you told me that you didn't,

That you loved Solomon?

No,

She said,

Dad,

I do.

I love,

I love Solomon and then she came to a certain stop in what she was going to say and he could see her little mind working because what happened in that moment?

My mic has fallen or something right here.

Significant background noise.

I don't know what that is,

But we'll see.

Maybe somebody's unmuted.

Anyway,

Let me keep going.

So here's this moment.

He sees his daughter having these reactions and he knows that what she's going through is what he would really like her to go through and that is what?

How can she love Solomon more than any other creature and have Solomon at the very bottom of the chest?

Last.

And he says to her,

How does that happen?

If you love him most,

He says,

I must have forgotten him.

You must have forgotten about him.

He said,

Yes,

We are.

You're what you're saying is true.

He said,

Well,

What are you going to do?

I mean,

You haven't covered up with so many things.

How can you even remember that you love Solomon when he's buried like that?

Is that what you want?

Oh,

No,

That's not what I want.

She said and he smiled to help her encourage this realization.

Well,

What do you think he said you can do in order to keep Solomon the one that you love most of all front and forward all the time?

And she looked at him and she said quietly as I'm saying to you,

Maybe I should take him out first and put him in last.

I should take him out of the chest first and put him in last.

So he's always front and forward.

This is exactly what you and I need to begin understanding the first and last action in any given moment.

And now I'll give you the words that I'm going to explain it.

You and I must first action remember to remember ourselves and the last action must be to remember to remember ourselves.

What does that mean to remember to remember ourselves first we talked about there is something in us that remembers everything for us.

It's unconscious.

It's mechanical.

It's what it means to be asleep to live from conditioned thought and all of the corresponding reactions and associations connected to those thoughts and that identity that just rolls along just pops up given any given moment very much like a machine and we've seen that that machine can get along.

It's not the end of the world and yet in one respect as long as we live from that consciousness that tells us what to remember and why it needs to be remembered and then what to do about that.

We will live from a nature that is reincarnating itself because all it has is the content of this worldly experience of this personality that's been developed over time until that first thing that first nature,

However,

It came into development.

It is delivering us into the hands of something that will never know any other possibilities other than repetition.

So instead of allowing in the moment of that unconscious resistance to whatever the condition may be instead of allowing that unconscious nature,

Which is what it does it resists the moment it denies the lesson.

The resistance to a moment is the denial of the lesson in it.

It doesn't matter how justified you think you are in resisting a moment.

If you're negative,

It means that you are in the hands of something that has handed you over to what will justify the anger the fear or the hatred because it remembers why that consciousness tells you why you have to feel that way.

Sweet God,

You would never let another human being tell you who you are and what to do and how to handle things.

At least I hope you wouldn't and yet you and I at the drop of a hat remand ourselves over to these demands that this consciousness says that somehow or other this is who you are.

This is what you must do.

This is what you can expect and then you've learned the lesson but you haven't because that consciousness this nature of resistance cannot learn resistance cannot learn end of story.

We must use the moment of this resistance the surge of that unwillingness that we feel to remember to remember the truth of ourselves to remember to remember that that reaction is not I to remember to remember that this moment where I feel like I'm caught I'm stuck.

There's no choices to not remember what that consciousness is saying so that I feel like I'm a captive and a victim but to remember to remember that consciousness and recall as best I can with this complete immersion in the moment that that's all that consciousness can do.

That's its entire repertoire is to resist react respond and then repeat.

That's its whole game.

But we can remember to remember that's its entire game.

This is what self-remembering is real self-remembrance is an instantaneous wish and work to connect ourselves to the whole of ourselves to this indwelling Divinity that is not separate from the moment that is bringing it to the forefront that it might give you the proper instruction the proper way to work in that moment because in that moment you realize there is something waiting inside of me that can not only learn from this moment but be transformed by it because I'm transformed by being brought into a new relationship with a new order of consciousness.

Make remembering to remember yourself your first and last obligation.

Remembering to remember yourself that requires a pause doesn't it?

Requires a little patience.

Patience the meaning of the word is to suffer yourself.

So in order to remember to remember the truth of myself and let some order of light and intelligence let some kind of love lead.

I'm going to have to momentarily suffer the upwelling of this old nature that wants to drive me along.

Remember to remember the truth of yourself that action will always bear fruit.

Now before I open it up for some questions and comments.

I've asked Kate to post a special key lesson a summary.

Please don't post to it so that it can go up and as it goes up you can copy it down.

It'll be posted when the talk comes back.

Here it is.

There is no better karma in any given moment than to make your first action to remember to remember yourself because there's no payment due for self-destructive or otherwise unkind actions that you're aware enough not to make.

There's no better karma in any given moment than to make your first action to remember to remember yourself because there's no payment due for self-destructive or otherwise unkind actions that you're aware enough not to make.

That's what this moment we're talking about produces.

An opportunity to not act against yourself by agreeing to act in favor of this unconscious nature that doesn't know what is good or true only how to continue itself at the cost of our higher possibilities.

Okay,

We have six or seven maybe eight minutes.

I'm going to turn it over to you.

Do you want to ask questions?

Do you want to make some comments?

How can we connect?

What can we do?

Kate says a question from,

Let me bring that up,

Ava.

What creates rejection from other human beings?

Fear,

Ava.

I can't fear rejection without needing affirmation.

I can't fear rejection without desiring confirmation.

This identity that depends on everyone and everything outside of itself to confirm itself lives in perpetual fear that it won't be confirmed,

That it won't be approved of,

And that's what that fear is about,

Ava.

Let me go to the board here.

What are we to remember about ourselves?

Tracy,

You're not to remember something about yourself.

That's what the mind does now.

To remember to remember yourself means I'm going to be aware of the fact that whatever is talking to me is lying to me.

If your mind is talking to you in the moment of a crisis,

Telling you who you are,

What it means,

What to do,

You are listening to an unconscious mind lost in the content of its own reactions.

So that to remember to remember myself means I'm going to bring myself as fully as I can into the awareness of the moment,

Undivided attention,

Observer and observed,

A singularity,

Not me aware of something doing something to me,

But me aware of the reaction and the reflection of that moment in my consciousness.

So I'm experiencing a singularity,

Ava.

That's what it means.

Patsy,

As I learn to live more presently and in remembrance,

I find other people that are very asleep more challenging.

Any tips?

Oh,

Yeah,

Absolutely.

You know,

Christ said,

Cast not thy pearls amongst the swine.

That wouldn't be politically correct these days,

Would it?

Men and women don't want what is true for the most part.

Even you and I resist the truth.

The teacher,

When it comes and the lesson,

That medicine is bitter.

But when we can learn as individuals to recognize the moment of the reaction is actually the same as the onset of a revelation of the consciousness resisting.

So if I can be present enough and not be carried off by some reaction and what it remembers,

If I can be present enough to that revelation,

Then in that revelation,

There is a realization of the consciousness that it's revealing.

And in that,

There's growth.

In that,

There's new possibilities.

In that,

I am connected to the divine because the light is revealing the darkness that knows itself not and changing that darkness at the same time.

Kate.

Let me see,

Kate.

I'm seeing a lot of questions.

This is great.

Question from Chantelle,

Trying to currently shift my memories and their automatic effect to my nervous system,

Good or bad.

Listen,

Real memory is not in thought.

It is in being.

Real memory is not in thought.

It is in being.

It is in the awareness of being.

Real memory is not in thought.

Don't try to change what you remember.

Try to change your relationship with whatever it is in you that is telling you what to remember.

You're not here to take instructions from negative reactions.

Going over to the board.

Okay,

I see a question.

What is happening when one realizes the truth in the moment after the fact?

Good question.

What John is saying,

Sometimes,

You know,

I get home and I realize,

Jesus,

Oh my God,

I was cruel or I said that sarcastic remark or suddenly I was in competition and I had no idea that I was just trying to bury that person.

I can't believe that that happened.

So first,

John,

Retrospection,

Meaning thinking about the event,

Has a certain value,

But not if there's judgment in it,

John.

When I see that I wasn't present,

That I was in fact told what to do,

Who I am,

I was told and then I just behave.

I just,

Yeah,

Okay,

That's right.

I don't know what else to do.

I just became that ugly man,

That ugly woman.

I just became it.

Seeing that happened is a good thing.

Retrospective to recognize that happened,

But we are not going to try to learn the lesson in retrospection.

This is critical.

You cannot learn the lesson in thought.

What we must be is present and the more we're able to recognize that these things happened,

That I lost myself,

That I handed myself over,

That I gave myself to that moment without knowing I did and all this grief is the result,

That karma is the cost of that.

I will increasingly want to be present to myself.

So I won't go into the moment,

Eyes open,

Eyes closed,

Hoping,

Struggling.

I'll go into the moment realizing I need to be present.

I need to remember myself at all times.

That's what's critical because the more I can do that,

The less likely I will be to hand myself over to this unconscious nature that is always resisting,

Which is a form of memory,

Reacting,

Which is a form of memory.

The identity that connects to the reaction is definitively connected to the memory and letting that live my life for me.

It is possible to completely be in the moment and experience the moment from another order of consciousness.

You've had aha moments.

In an aha moment,

Every last one of those moments of epiphany,

I'm asking you to see this,

Was a revelation of something that was waiting for me to realize it was waiting for me.

So that this love,

This intelligence,

This kindness,

This ability to sacrifice,

It's already built into this being,

But the being is buried by this conditioned mind,

This memory.

So me remembering this in these moments,

Remembering that it's another possibility.

How about that?

Remember,

You know what?

What else can happen in this moment besides me being negative?

That memory,

Even though it's in thought,

Belongs to another order of consciousness.

And the last question for now from Steve is being present,

Paying attention.

Yes,

Being fully attentive is what it means to be in presence.

Being fully attentive is what it means to be in presence.

It is what mindful means.

That means I am completely aware of all that is in my mind as a reflection of the world outside of me,

And they are a singularity.

That's mindfulness.

And in mindfulness,

There is healing.

In being present,

There is a relationship with another order of power,

A divine order that cannot act against itself.

Remember to remember yourself.

That's the lesson.

Please God,

Help me to remember to remember myself.

That's a good prayer.