Vasistha on timlessness, memories, dreams and creation

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From this morning's reading and contemplation:

KUNDADANTA said:
Memory arises when a past experience is revived in one's consciousness. In the beginning of creation, whose memory expands as this creation?
THE SAGE replied:
Everything is seen and experienced even though all this had not been seen or experienced before - even as one may dream of one's own death. The very notion 'This I have seen before' when repeatedly entertained becomes a memory. In the space of one's own consciousness the imaginary object appears: it cannot be said that it is real or unreal. It is only by the grace (or the power) of consciousness that even dreams and the like are experienced.: how then is it impossible for this pure consciousness to bring about the world-appearance as if it were revived memory? Just as at the end of deep sleep one dreams, even so in the infinite consciousness the three worlds appear. That which is called the world is pure void. what is, and in what it is and from what it is, exists everywhere at all times.

No, arise and do what has to be done. I shall resume my contemplation; for without such contemplation there is possibility of contact with sorrow.

Vasistha's Yoga VI.2:184-185 translated by Swami Venkatesananda

This brings to mind the notions of "we're you in the future" and "there is no time" as often repeated by the C's. Also, "as above, so below" seems to be worth considering in relation to this quote from Vasistha's Yoga. If such is the case with those dicta, then not only are the C's you in the future, they are also you in the past.

This is interesting, because prior to reading this passage this morning, I was contemplating, and really "asking" for guidance from...well, from Truth Itself, for clarify on the issue of remembering what I Am. While I continue to do work on myself, there is always this nagging, gut-feeling that a hair-trigger exists between what I consider myself to be in this moment, and what I Am eternally, and that there is a link to that memory somewhere, and it has to exist in timelessness and non-locally. If one simply has the one-pointed focus and unwavering trust in that Truth, it would be all over.

This all reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, but I don't know who gets the credit for it.

Infinite patience yields instantaneous results.