More or less approximately we can represent the thought as water flowing down continuously from unknown mountains (the instinctive, the rational part), following a course previously shaped and traced, and at the end flowing into the vast sea of matter.
Memory is a vague or clear remembrance of past things; it is a mental fixation of present things, and an obvious imagination of the future.
These three times of memory become indispensable so that it may be properly named memory.
A beautiful Tibetan legend tells the story about how one can overcome sleep.
Once upon a time there was an ascetic of great virtue and holiness, who controlled all his minds, senses and faculties but desired to remain ever mentally united with God.
Renunciation, as a permanent, living holocaust, is not only a unique good and mean of salvation for a soul that has assumed it, but also the unique mean to help the world and redeem Humanity.
The Superior cannot develop a true spiritual work in the soul of the Son if this Superior does not know intimate aspirations of this Son.
From the beginning, the Superior has to know those intimate thoughts and secret feelings of the Son.
When the Son is about to meditate, he starts repeating the relative formula, and continues later with a more or less uniform invocation, in which it is only the subject that changes.