# Memory ## The Interior Castle Study Edition The power to recall past events and keep before our minds the things we have come to know in the past. With our memory we must therefore strive to keep before us the mysteries of the life of Jesus Christ. In the prayer of quiet, the memory would not want to be occupied with anything else than God. In the [[prayer-of-union|prayer of union]], the memory and intellect seem to be asleep to the things of the world and to ourselves, or like one who has died to the things of the world so as to live more completely in God. [^1]: The Interior Castle: Study Edition / Second Edition, Revised includes Full Text of St. Teresa of Avila's Work, Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD ## The Way of Perfection Study Edition MEMORY. The power of representing to the intellect what will occupy it; in the prayer of quiet our memories would not want to be occupied with anything else than who it is they are near ([[tj-way-ccel-31|31.3]]).