“How do we overcome our grief, pain, and our fears of our memory of abuse that traps us in time?... The way to do it is to give it up; do not identify with it. Ask yourself: “Am I this memory?” Obviously you are not. While you identify with your memory and pain, your grief, with the abuse that is trapping you.”

— Benjamin Creme

Source: Maitreya's Mission Vol. III (1997)

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artist, author, esotericist 1922–2016

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