● Affirmations ●

1. I remember who I was before fear shaped my thoughts.
2. I return gently to my original truth and inner simplicity.
3. I release what the world placed on me that was never mine.
4. I allow my soul to soften, trust, and receive again.

5. I walk in quiet alignment with my divine origin.
6. I choose remembrance over striving, and peace over effort.
7. I rest in the truth that I have always been whole.

● Bible verses and explained ●

Ecclesiastes 7:29
“God made mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

● Meaning ●
This verse reveals that the original state of humanity was already aligned, whole,

and upright. Nothing was missing at the beginning. What distorted that state was not God, but the layers added afterward, beliefs, fears, and systems created by the world. Remembering the sacred is therefore not about improvement, it is about returning to the original design before the inventions of the world reshaped the soul.

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Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
Before you were born, I set you apart and gave you a purpose among the nations.”
Jeremiah 1:5

● Meaning ●
This verse affirms that identity existed before

experience. Before the body, before society, before instruction, there was divine knowing and sanctification. The sacred self is not created later in life, it precedes life itself. Retreat becomes an act of remembering what was already known about you before the world ever spoke its opinions.
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Matthew 18:3
“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 18:3

● Meaning ●
Here, becoming like a child is not about weakness or innocence alone, it is about returning to an

unconditioned state of being. The child symbolizes the self before fear, labels, and learned limitation. The kingdom is accessed not by becoming more complex, but by shedding what was taught and remembering who one was before the world intervened.

● I Remember Who I Was Before the World ●

True remembrance is not achieved by adding layers, it awakens when they are released. To become like a child is not to forget life, it is to remember it clearly. A child meets the world before fear teaches defense. A child speaks from the heart before

approval teaches silence. In that original state, the soul recognizes its source without effort. The kingdom of heaven is not far away or earned, it is remembered through inner alignment. Change does not create a new self, it uncovers the self that was always present. The world trains the mind to strive, compare, and protect.

Remembrance invites the soul to soften, listen, and return. When you remember who you were before judgment shaped you, peace replaces striving. Authority flows without force. Faith rises without struggle. Life becomes simple, steady, and alive again. This remembering is the doorway, and humility is the key that opens it. In

quiet surrender, the soul returns to joy, purpose, and belonging, resting in truth that never disappeared, only waited patiently to be remembered with love eternally.

● Meditation ●

Close your eyes gently and slow your breath.
Inhale deeply through the nose, exhale softly through the mouth.

With each breath out, allow the noise of the world to fall away.
No effort, no striving.

Bring your attention to your heart.
Feel its quiet presence.

Silently say within:
“I remember.”

Remember who you were before fear.
Before labels.
Before expectations.

Rest in that simple

awareness.
Nothing to fix.
Nothing to become.

If thoughts arise, let them pass like clouds.
Return to the breath.
Return to remembrance.

Sit here for a few moments.
When ready, open your eyes slowly,
carrying this quiet knowing

with you.

☆ Remembering the Self Before the World ☆

“You do not prepare for the sacred by becoming more, you prepare by remembering who you were before the world told you otherwise.”

● Words of Blessing ●

May remembrance rise gently within you.
May you release every title that tried to define you.
May labels fall away like dust from the soul.
May the masks learned from the world lose their hold.
May you return to the self that existed before names,

roles, and expectations.
May your heart recognize itself beyond achievement and status.
May you no longer borrow identity from approval or rejection.
May simplicity restore what performance once covered.
May truth stand naked, whole, and sufficient.
And may you walk rooted in who you are,

not as the world shaped you,
but as you were before it spoke.