As they stood baffled, not knowing what to make of the evidence of their senses, I told the guards to back off and leave the matter to me. Memories are referred to the past history of the rememberer by feelings of warmth and intimacy and of the past direction in time. A feeling of pastness is an essential constituent of memory. In the crucible of Earthly trials, we must patiently move forward, and the Savior’s healing power will bring us light, understanding, peace, and hope. Although the details will differ, the tragedies, the unanticipated tests and challenges, both physical and spiritual, come to each of us because this is morality. This consists partly in the occurrence of images as more or less accurate copies of past occurrences because they are accompanied by two kinds of feelings, feelings of familiarity, which lead us to trust the images to the past and to assign places to them in the time and order. According to the intensity of the feeling of pastness, we refer the image (or the event represented by it) to more or less remote times in the past. This feeling is apparently not something distinct from the feelings of pastness and familiarity, but the reference to the past in memory is possessed in the nature of the belief-feeling, not in the content believed. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9

It was useless to say anything at this juncture. It was not a vampire that they had just seen. They knew and suspected nothing of supernatural origin here. It was Erin’s spectacular recovery which had them in total disbelief.  Here the knowledge to be explained is not knowledge of the past; it is the rememberer’s knowledge of one’s own present state of mind. This view involves the idea that when one has a memory belief one must, unless one is unaware of having the belief (if this is possible), be aware of a presentation from which one can read off that one has it. Let us suppose that this presentation consists, among other things, of a feeling of belief together with an image representing that content of the belief. Now unless we supposed that this presentation is the belief itself, rather than a mere sign of its existence, it would seem that positing its existence does not advance us toward an explanation of how a person knows that, and what, one believes; for otherwise we would need an explanation of how a person knows that a presentation of a certain sort indicates the existence of a belief of a certain sort. Yet it seems absurd to say that a memory belief is a feeling or a complex consisting of feelings and images. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9

And this will be doubly absurd if it is held that memory presentations are the grounds of memory beliefs. For then the presentation will be both the belief and the ground on which the belief is based, and the belief, therefore, will be based on itself. And it seems absurd to speak of a belief as being based on itself. Perhaps it will be said that only part of the memory presentation—a part which excludes the feeling of belief—is the ground of the belief, and that this part is not identical with the belief that is grounded on it. However, if so, why must there also be a feeling of belief? The back parlor was best for such gatherings, having no bookshelves and a deep velvet sofa and lots of tolerable Queen Anne chairs. Of course there was ormolu and inlaid wood everywhere, and a blazing new wallpaper of wine and beige stripes, and the garlands of flowers in the carpet seemed to be having convulsions, and the Impressionist paintings on the wall in their thick encrusted frames were like windows into a far far better, Sun-filled Universe, but it was a good room. I shut off the overhead chandelier immediately and switched on two of the smaller corner lamps. It was softly dim now, but not uncomfortably so, and I directed everyone to sit down. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9

The sense of directly aware is supposed to be the sense in which we are directly aware of such entities as pains and mental images; in this sense, it is logically impossible for a person to mistakenly think that one is directly aware of an object, and logically impossible for a person to be mistake concerning the character of that which one is directly aware. If we were directly aware of past events in this sense, there would be memory statements that are, like pain reports, incorrigible, that is, such that it is logically impossible for a sincere assertion of them to be false. However, it is evident that no memory statement is incorrigible in this sense, and that the mere fact that someone now has the memory belief that X happened can never entail, by itself, that X happened. In order to get the most out of our complex collection of adulthood, we must make conscious choices. People who commit to continually recreating their roles discover a newfound sense of personal control and greater satisfaction in all the roles they choose to play. Do you earn enough money? Does any of us? I do not think I earn enough. Despite the fact that I live well, I can think of all sorts of reasons more money would be useful. I would like to take a long vacation, for one, and I would like to pay someone to do the chores I am tired of doing. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9

Then there is the live-in lawyer I want to hire to massage my troubles away. And that is just the beginning. Sit back for a second and imagine you have just won one hundred and fifty million dollars in the lottery, or that a long-lost relative has graciously left you two hundred million dollars in one’s will. What is the first thing you would do? Tell your boss good-bye? Leave home with no forwarding address? What long-term changes would you make? Would you go back to college? Move to a real city? Would you be happier because of new found financial security and experiencing those long wished for escapades? Why do you do your job? To earn enough money to feed, house, and clothe your family? To take care of your children so your spouse can be free to earn? To save enough to realize your dream of owning a mansion? What gives you the most on-the-job satisfaction? If you could change three things about your job, what would they be? Those of us who get the most satisfaction from our work tend to be top performers who have plenty of self-esteem—two qualities that are associated with increased earning potential! Adulthood offers us the opportunity to remake work in ways that make it more relevant to our most heartfelt needs and desires. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9

Few of us have more than a vague idea of what our personal satisfiers are. The occurrence would be one of coming to remember, or perhaps being reminded of, something previously forgotten (sometimes something only momentarily forgotten). Here remembering in this sense may be preceded by trying to remember, as when one gropes for the answer to a question, or searches one’s memory for it. When this happens, and also in cases of sudden and spontaneous recollection, there often occur the memory images and experiences of remembering to which memory theorists have attached so much importance. We are in the habit of gauging our work primarily by the wroth it commands on the open market, not by how well it matches our inner urges to grow. We have to look for instances in everyday life that confirm our identified satisfiers. As we become more confident in the power of our strengths to add satisfaction to our lives, capitalize on these competencies in other situations, we will invent new ways of addressing certain duties and interest that incorporate our hidden strengths. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9

We search for happiness. We long for peace. We hope for love. And the Lord showers us with an amazing abundance of blessings. However, intermingled with the joy and happiness, one thing is certain: there will be moments, hours, days, sometimes years when our soul will be wounded. That is why it seems that sometimes millionaires and billionaires worry because they start to see that there are no guarantees in life. However, the one thing we can count on is God. Most people are surprised to learn tat they are skilled enough, experienced enough, even secure enough in their earning power to enable them to transform the work they do to make a living into more than just working for a paycheck. Mature people are able to see that no matter how much money they make, it is important to pursue satisfaction somewhere, too. As we grow spiritually, so will the people around us. Magically, negative comment will become more jovial and less demoralizing. Wounds of the soul are not unique to the rich nor less affluent, to one culture, one nation, nor one generation. They come to all and are part of the learning we receive from this mortal experience. “Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?” reports Isaiah 53.1. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9

We must understand that people are smart. We cannot confuse our efforts with shallow management practices such as passing out smile buttons or having morale meetings; people sense a manipulative motive when it is present, and give only as much as they think they have to to appear to be a person who plays or works well as a member of a team or a group. Therefore, it is important that we make a habit of using our hidden assets in all our endeavors, and we will find our workday as fulfilling as our time off. The next reward shows us another way to elevate satisfaction while increasing competence. Yet, our soul wounds may come from a natural disaster, an unfortunate accident, an unfaithful husband or wife, annoying neighbors and community members, and 62 percent of people claimed to be exhausted, while 70 percent blamed job stress for their health problems and lack of productivity. There are so many things that turn life upside down for a righteous person. We each understand that difficulties are part of life, but when they come to us personally, they can take our breath away. “Think it not strange concerning the fiery trials which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you,” reports Apostle Peter. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9

Along with bright colors of happiness and joy, the darker-colored threads of trial and tragedy are woven deeply into the fabric of our Father’s plan. These struggles, although difficult, often become our greatest teachers. If it be denied that knowledge and belief can be simply retained, and tat a belief can be well grounded simply by virtue of having been acquired on the basis of good evidence or from a reliable source, the only alternative sees to be that we must be constantly re-acquiring, on the basis of continuous supply of fresh evidence, every item of knowledge we possess and are said to remember. When we have ready (if not constant) access to our best self, amazing things can happen. We are eligible for a kind of genius. We become open to new ideas, more able to weigh tough options, more creative in the way we approach the problems in our life. We may also begin to get a dose of the cosmic truths whose promise makes every moment an adventure. “The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception,” reports Proverbs 14.1. “The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings them trouble,” reports Proverbs 16.6. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9

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