Remember Your Self

Remember Your Self: In the Light

I did it my way.
I got out of bed and I am walking again.

We are all on the road. On the road from living unconsciously, to total consciousness. A road to inner peace, from where we can love unconditionally. Each of us travels his own unique path. Your path may appear different but in essence it is equal to that of all human beings.

Remember Your Self is the description of such a unique road. Marja Huibers-Boeren relates how she spent eight years in a wheelchair because of a disorder of the connective tissue. Then she ended up in bed, where she lay for six years and where she was expected to spend the rest of her days. Day and night she was in pain, but most of all she suffered for not being able to be the wife and mother of her three children she would have wanted to be.

Until the moment she became aware, with the aid of loving helpers, of what illness is trying to tell us. “Illness shows us where we have strayed from the path, it stops us in our tracks and forces us to ask ourselves questions.” By listening to the ‘voice’ within her, by listening to the longing of her soul and by learning to live accordingly, instead of continuing to work on herself from the outside, she has experienced a total mental, emotional and spiritual transformation. Her wonder and gratitude about the way in which her body, that healed itself step by step, followed this transformation is immense. A miracle. Her suffering came to an end when she remembered all the parts of herself that she had always been, within her, in her soul, but that somehow she had forgotten about along the way. She became complete, whole and felt the peace this brings, the unconditional love that flows from her heart into the world.

This book relates her long path of failing and trying again. Maybe her path is different from yours, because you may not be ill, for example, but you will recognize many of the inner steps she takes.

The illustrations in this book are of her hand. She painted most of them during the years she was bedridden. All the things that could not be expressed or that she did not yet understand just flowed onto the canvas through her watercolour pencils.

About the Author

Marja Huibers was born in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Daughter of kind, hard-working parents, who built up a furniture shop during the Second World War. An anthroposophical doctor drew her attention to a 7-armed candlestick (candle holder?) to show her where her position is in this family situation. Very clear. She worked for a few years as a schoolteacher and had to stop working when in her marriage to Johan, her first child Patricia was born. That is how things worked in those days. That was the end of her job. After 14 months Patricia was followed by Erwin. When Gijs arrived 4½ years later they completed a threesome.
Three miracles, that’s how she experienced them. Now that she is a grandmother of 6 grandchildren she has been witness to more miracles.