The Eight Great Remembrances of Real Life

There is no self that exists apart from relationship. All relationships are based either in the light, what is good, kind and loving or in the dark, what is descending, critical and cruel. Our task is to be in the right relationship with life. A young man was so touched when he receive a gift because someone remembered him. What is touched by our remembrance of it always returns itself to the giver. One cannot remember what is good without the good remembering it. Presently, all we remember is ourselves and the evidence of this is what we receive all day long.

Is it possible to remember what is true and noble? When it is Christmas or we have exciting plans or a hot date, we don't have a problem remembering what is going to happen. We are consumed by our thinking about it. We remember these things because it fills our nature with sensation. We don't remember the divine because it doesn't sustain us in the same way. In fact, it is not us that remembers. Something has been formed in us over time, our past, and we react to what it sees and then something is activated in us that triggers a response to the event. It is not what is true for us that responds but our past acting through us. The proof of this is we can't remember goodness at difficult moments, something else remembers our life for us. What is active in us is not in relationship with the celestial. We don't have an active faith. If we are not working to remember what is right and good, something is opposing it. Just thinking is a form of incessant reaction.

We have to begin to remember the inherent emptiness of what we are presently being given to remember. It isn't I that is thinking but the past. The emptiness brings up images of the past and dreams of the future of what will be. Our nature lives in time. Our life is handed to us by a mechanical nature that has its own life that draws its life force from us to keep it self alive. When we begin to see the truth of this it is the beginning of the birth of the Living Light. We have to allow the conscious struggle between what we choose to remember, not what it wants to remember. This is the struggle between the darkness and the light.

If we are not remembering ourselves something else is using us. We were given the 10 commandments so we would remember something higher exists. We wouldn't need these commandments if goodness was active in us.

Here are 8 great remembrances that when we work to remember them it will bring to light the 2 great commandments, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God and thy neighbor as thyself."

8 Great Remembrances

1. I am not the only one who suffers. When you meet people be awake and present in the moment and remember yourself.
2. Everything on earth wants to be loved.
3. Never willingly be affirmed, express or embody a negative state.
4. Always give to another that which you would hope to receive from them before wishing for it for yourself.
5. Keep no accounts
6. See events as emissaries not adversaries. Be willing to have the lesson.
7. Not my will but thy will. Look for evidence of its mounting campaign to keep its grip on you.
8. Let there be nothing between Me and Thee.

Don't let the old mechanical memory machine stand between you and the moment. Receive it whole-heartedly and you will be made whole. You will receive what you remember. If you remember what is true, good and right, you will receive what you were intended to receive.