Editorial May 24, 1975 Issue

Spiritualizing Our Memories

Naomi Price

It is said that time softens grief and hurtful memories; yet we should not be concerned that it will separate us from those we love but no longer see. Time cannot intrude on memories of goodness, for goodness is immortal. We have them forever, and they become more real and tangible to us as we spiritually progress.

All that we have experienced of spiritual good in the past is inseparable from the ever-present divine Mind, so it never can be erased from our true consciousness. On the contrary, our grasp on the good of the past becomes progressively stronger, clearer, and more meaningful to us as our thought is spiritualized, purified of material, personal sense, and we learn to discern the objects of immortal good unobscured by false beliefs.

When we turn our thoughts to friends we haven't seen for years, we can often vividly recall the true and loving qualities they expressed. As though it were only yesterday, we can sometimes mentally relive the good moments we shared while they were with us in person, and enjoy again in memory some incident beautifully displaying the qualities that so endeared them to us. By some miracle, it seems, the negative traits of human character and the less lovely mortal events naturally fade from memory. These images are not part of true, eternal consciousness, and even human memory does not normally retain them indefinitely. As our consciousness rises higher and becomes more spiritual, we find they rapidly drop out of thought into oblivion.

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