Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'
May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.'
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.