Daily Quote, Monday May 18.

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Hope you all had a great day.

Can you catch the eternal in the net of time?

Surely, memory is time, is it not?...and through time we hope to achieve a result: I am a clerk today and, given time and opportunity, I will become the manager or the owner....and, with the same mentality, we say, 'I shall achieve reality, I shall approach God....' So, through time we hope to achieve the timeless, through time we hope to gain the eternal. Can you do that? Can you catch the eternal in the net of time - through memory which is of time?

The timeless can be only when memory, which is the 'me' and the 'mine', ceases. If you see the truth of that - that through time the timeless cannot be understood or received - then we go into the problem of memory. The memory of technical things is essential, but the psychological memory that maintains the self, the 'me' and the 'mine', that gives identification and self-continuance, is wholly detrimental to life and to reality. When one sees the truth of that, the false drops away; therefore, there is no psychological retention of yesterday's experience.

Collected Works, Vol. V - 119