YOU CAN EDUCATE ANYONE TO GAIN POWER BUT NEVER CAN YOU MAKE A PERSON VIRTUOUS WITH ANY MEANS. IT HAS TO COME FROM THE HEART OF THE PERSON, AND THE PERSEVERANCE OF THAT PERSON TO WALK THE PATH OF VIRTUE.
CHARACTER IS NOT SOMETHING YOU DEVELOP OVERNIGHT. IT DEVELOPS FOR A LIFETIME. CHARACTER IS A PRODUCT OF ALL THE EXPERIENCES OF A PERSON AND HIS/HER RESPONSE TO THESE EXPERIENCES. YOU CANNOT DEVELOP GOOD CHARACTER WITHOUT SELF DISCIPLINE, AND THE PERSEVERANCE TO DO WHAT IS GOOD. REGARDING SELF MASTERY, IT IS EASIER TO BECOME RULER OF A NATION, THAN TO RULE ONESELF.
IT IS EASIER TO BECOME MASTER OF CONTINENTS, THAN BECOME THE MASTER OF ONESELF. THE GREATEST ALLY AND FOE IS ONE--- IT IS THE SELF.
IT IS EASIER TO FIGHT AN ARMY THAN TO FIGHT ONESELF. THUS, THE ONE WHO MASTERS ONESELF IS BETTER THAN THE RULER OF NATIONS.
IT IS EASIER TO FIGHT AN ARMY THAN TO FIGHT ONESELF. THUS, THE ONE WHO MASTERS ONESELF IS BETTER THAN THE RULER OF NATIONS.
TO SUBJUGATE THE SELF WILL REQUIRE ALL YOUR WILL, ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND ALL YOUR MIGHT. FOR MANY ARE PUT INTO RUIN BECAUSE OF THEIR SELVES OUT OF CONTROL. THUS, IMPORTANT TO HAVE SELF CONTROL MOST OF THE TIME. IF ONE IS OUT OF CONTROL, BETTER HAVE A PLACE OF SILENCE WHERE YOU ARE ALONE AND FIGHT THE SELF- TO CONTROL IT, AND SUBDUE IT.
FOR IF THE SELF IS UNCONTROLLED, YOU HAVE A VERY DANGEROUS MONSTER INSIDE YOU, THAT CAN PUT YOU TO RUIN, AND EVEN LEAD YOU TO YOUR DEATH. FOR EVERY UNCONTROLLED ASPECT OF THE SELF, IS THE PERSONIFICATION OF THE DEVIL.
ALL HUMAN BEINGS HAVE DEMONS AND DEVILS INSIDE.... FOR EVERY MANIFESTATION OF THE UNCONTROLLED ASPECT OF THE SELF IS A DEVIL/DEMON. SATAN, THE ENEMY OF HUMANITY, HAS ITS RESIDENCE INSIDE THE FLESH OF EVERY HUMAN BEING AND THAT SATAN USES THE FLESH TO CAUSE THE SOUL TO TURN AWAY FROM GOD AND THAT SATAN WILL DO WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY TO ACQUIRE THE SOUL THAT RESIDES IN THE HUMAN BODY.
THUS, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A CONSTANT STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT. THE FLESH WILL TRY TO PULL THE SPIRIT DOWN TO RUIN. WHILE THE SPIRIT WILL TRY TO CONTROL THE FLESH AND GAIN MASTERY OF IT.
THE TWO OPPOSITES WILL BATTLE INSIDE US... AND WHOEVER WINS WILL GAIN CONTROL.
BUT LIKE THE NIGHT AND DAY, THEY TAKE TURNS WHO WILL DOMINATE FOR THE TIME BEING.BUT WHEN HUMAN BEINGS CHOSE DARKNESS, AND TURN AWAY FROM GOD. THEN THAT HUMAN BEING WILL BE RUINED AND BY CHOOSING EVIL, THAT HUMAN BEING HAS FORFEITED HIS SOUL.
BUT MANY IN THIS WORLD CHOSE DARKNESS. THEY ARE COMFORTABLE IN DARKNESS BECAUSE OF THIS, THEY EXIST, BUT DO NOT LIVE. THEY ARE LIVING DEAD.
IF YOU WILL OBSERVE, MANY ARE LIKE THAT WHO ARE JUST LIKE ROBOTS. THEY ARE UNDER THE SPELL OF EVIL, THAT THEY SEEM TO BE NOT WAKING UP.
THEY DO NOT LIVE FOR A HIGHER PURPOSE.THEY SIMPLY DO NOT CARE.
THEY DO NOT LIVE FOR A HIGHER PURPOSE.THEY SIMPLY DO NOT CARE.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO THESE PEOPLE IS SELF GRATIFICATION. AS LONG AS THEY GRATIFY ONESELF, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.
THESE PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR TRUE PURPOSE, AND THEIR TRUE SELF WORTH. THEY HAVE SHORTCHANGED THEMSELVES OF THE THINGS THAT WILL FALL TO RUIN, RATHER THAN TO SEEK THE ETERNAL. FOR THEIR LACK OF SELF DISCIPLINE, THEY WILL BE RUINED. FOR LACK OF SELF MASTERY, THEY ARE SLAVES TO THEMSELVES...
THUS THEY REALLY DIE THAN LIVE.
THUS THEY REALLY DIE THAN LIVE.
THOUGH LIVING, THEY ARE ALREADY DEAD AND I THINK MANY WILL NOT EVER MASTER EVEN THIS DEMON OF THE SELF: THE LOVE FOR MONEY.
IF YOU WILL EVER COME TO THE POINT TO MASTER THE DEMON CALLED LOVE FOR MONEY, THEN YOU ARE IN YOUR FIRST STEP TO SELF MASTERY. THOSE WHO SELL THEIR BELONGINGS SO THAT THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO SHARE TO THE POOR AND THE NEEDY ARE CONSIDERED LUNATICS AND CRAZY IN THIS WORLD.
BECAUSE MANY IN THIS WORLD LOVE THEMSELVES MORE THAN OTHERS THAT THEY CANNOT EVEN SACRIFICE FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS.
THEY ARE UNDER THE POWER OF THE EVIL ONE AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE EVIL ONE IS GREAT, THAT THEY CANNOT JUST SLIP AWAY FROM IT. AND EVEN IF YOU ACQUIRE GREAT POWER IF YOU FAIL IN MASTERING ONESELF, YOU WILL BE RUINED.
YOUR SELF WILL DESTROY YOURSELF IN THE END... IF YOU DO NOT MASTER YOURSELF.
- hope this sharing will help. it will take a lifetime or more than a lifetime to master the self but those who master it, will be enlightened, and be free from desires.
When this happens, life and death will not matter anymore... for the one who masters the self will see that death and life are one and the same.
They are the 2 sides of the same coin but to those who cannot master the self... they will not understand that all is one, and one is all... and that nothing and all are the same and definitely, to the one who cannot master the self, that one cannot understand, that all is an illusion, and nothing is real....
that what we hold dear is nothing... and what we put aside is all and by our uncontrolled pursuits, we are entrapped in a prison of illusion, and continue to suffer over and over again... that is what happens if you cannot master yourself, you will be under a curse.
that what we hold dear is nothing... and what we put aside is all and by our uncontrolled pursuits, we are entrapped in a prison of illusion, and continue to suffer over and over again... that is what happens if you cannot master yourself, you will be under a curse.
A kind of curse that every moment of your life is a nightmare, but you love the nightmares... that you come to be at home with it. Thus, the absolute truth, when we realize it, will set us free.
~From my beloved Mentor
