mistakes, sins and sorrows. You deliberately forget these, that your memory may be clean and free and strong and true. It is written, “Thou shalt forget thy misery and remember it as waters that pass away.” This is the divine promise and it is fulfilled in the man of right meditation.

Instead of being disturbed because you cannot remember certain dates, names, faces or other temporal, passing things, count them all nothing and you will soon find that you will easily remember just what you should. That list, that date, those evil memories are absolutely non-essential and must be forgotten sometime. Why not now? And as you cease to be agitated and do not congest your brain cells over things, they can slip into your mentality just when they should; and if you are to remember a date, you will remember it quickly; if a number, it will come in good time, and names will come quickly by not worrying over your memory.

The suggestions that you are weak or old or losing some of your faculties, dismiss immediately. They are not fit companions to entertain. You did not invite them and they have intruded themselves upon you. Learn to shut the door to such thoughts and say, “I never knew you. I know you not nor whence you came.” This is the power of the Christ—the Master of the House (Luke 13:25) who shuts the door upon all these things that would claim place and power in the name of your good.

No suggestion that you are losing your memory

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