Discriminating Between Your Intelligence and Memory

Are you becoming aware that almost everything you do is based on responses of memory patterns to present problems, situations, circumstances and the like? We are all programmed early in life with different patterns that become embedded in our memory banks. The result is that almost all of our mature existence has been predetermined, so that instead of living spontaneously in the now we are responding mindlessly-that is, without consciousness to various external stimuli. But because we are unaware of these deeply rooted patterns in our memory, we are under the illusion that we make choices out of free will.

When you begin, dimly at first, to recognize the great difference between your intelligence and your memory, your intelligence will slowly and gradually become activated so that you will be able to begin responding to problems and circumstances by asking yourself real questions. By asking yourself, “WHAT DO I THINK ABOUT THIS NOW?” you are not merely responding from pre-set patterns. You will consult your memory and use it as a tool, and then make decisions based on the best thinking you can do now.

This consulting of your intelligence will slowly strengthen it, and you will enter on the training path needed to discriminate between your dynamic intelligence and your passive memory. Then a process of growth will begin in your intelligence. In time you will discover your self becoming more alive and you will experience a new kind of joy based, not on externally produced sensations, but on the inner sense that you are really on the path of true self-fulfillment.