Forgetting leads to exile; remembering leads to redemption.
- Rabbi Israel baal Shem Tov

 When we vow to re/member all parts of ourselves - the dark and the light, the delicious and the repulsive, the shameful and the glorifiable - we free ourselves from the imprisonment of unconscious programming and the destructive patterning it spawns. To remember ourselves as whole is to take accountability for all the ways in which we create and destroy ourselves, others, the planet, as well as the relations that bind all these.

None of us can remember everything. And it is this way by design: as conscious beings, we necessarily require an unconscious. And yet, if awareness of our wholeness is the goal, then further remembrance of the forgotten parts of ourselves paves the pathway to reparative justice. Through this, we can recognize the ways we have harmed and been harmed, while taking actionable accountability for both. In turn, we can begin to repair and reintegrate the disavowed parts of ourselves that have been locked in karmic cycles of trauma, transgression, and despair.

In this way, not only does remembering lead to redemption, it also leads to liberation.

I cannot help you with everything. But I can help you remember to look for the key to unlock the treasure trove wherein lies the universal map back home to yourself.