Friendship

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remember that they’ve not remembered.


There are those who do not remember, but they remember that they’re not remembering.


There are those who do not remember, but think they have remembered.


There are those who remember, but do not remember that they’ve remembered.


There are those who remember, but pretend that they have not remembered.


And there are those who remember, and remember that they’ve remembered.


Those who have fully Re-membered have become a Member Once Again of the Body of
God.


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Fifteen

I wish to fully re-member. I wish to be re-united with God. Isn’t that what every human soul
longs for?


Yes. Some do not know it, some do not “remember that they remember,” but they have a
longing in their hearts nonetheless. Some do not even believe in the existence of God, yet
the longing deep within them will not disappear. They think it is a longing for something else,
but, in the end, they will discover that it is a longing to return home, to become a Member
Once Again of the Body of God.


They will discover this, the unbelievers, when they discover that nothing else for which they
reach, nothing else which they acquire, can satisfy their deepest inner longing. Not even the
love of another.


All Earthly loves are temporary and short-lived. Even the love of a lifetime, a partnership
which lasts for half a century or more, is short-lived compared to the life of the soul, which is
without end. And this the soul will realize, if not before, then at the moment of what you call
death. For the soul will know in that moment that there is no death; that life is everlasting, and
that You have always been, are now, and always will he, world without end.


When the soul realizes this, it will also realize the temporary nature of what it thought to be a
permanent love. And then, on its next journey into physical life, it will understand more
deeply, it will remember more easily, and it will know that all that one loves in physical life is
short lived, transient.


Somehow, that seems so desolate. It seems to take the joy out of love for me. How can I love
someone or something fully if I know that it is so temporary, so... so meaningless on the
overall scale of things.


I did not say anything about it being meaningless. Nothing about love is meaningless. Love is
the meaning of life itself. Life is love, expressed. That is life. Therefore, every act of love is

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