Ideas...

The ideas in a man's mind are hidden and secret until he expresses
them through actions, or as speech, or as the visible creations and
productions of his hands, or in behaviour generally. Those ideas are
neither lost nor destroyed. They are a permanent part of the man's
memory and character and consciousness and subconsciousness, where
they have been recorded as automatically and as durably as a master
phonograph disc records music. Just as a wax copy may be burnt but the
music will still live on in the master disc, so the cosmos may be
annihilated or disintegrate completely but the creative idea of it
will still live on in the World-Mind. More, in the same way a man's
body may die and disintegrate but the creative idea of him will still
live on in the World-Mind. More, in the same way a man's body may die
and disintegrate, but the creative idea of him will still remain in
the World-Mind as his Soul. It will not die. It's his real Self, his
perfect Self. It is the true Idea of him which is forever calling to
be realized. It is the unmanifest image of God in which man is made
and which he has yet to bring into manifestation in his everyday
consciousness................Paul Brunton