CONSCIOUSNESS
Concept of Self
Your 'concept of self' is your individual viewpoint and determines your relationship to all things and the order of events you encounter. It is the key to…
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- Psalm 42:1
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Self-TransformationIdentityFutureRealityDesireSacrificeIndividual ViewpointLaw of Consciousness
Q&a 1948 Lessons
You can, by changing your concept of self, interfere with your future and mold it in harmony with your changed concept of self. You, by changing your concept of self, change your relationship to things. If you rearrange the words of a play to write a different one, you have not created new words, but simply had the joy of rearranging them. Your concept of self determines the order of events you encounter. They are in the foundation of the world, but not their order of arrangement. Because your desire to change has not been aroused. If you would fall in love with what you really want to be, you would become it. It takes an intense hunger to bring about a transformation of self. The only sacrifice you are called upon to make, is to give up your present concept of self and appropriate the desire you want to express. It is only your individual viewpoint, as your world is forever bearing witness to your present concept of self. If someone offends you, change your concept of self. That is the only way others change... What is important is your concept, not of another, but of yourself, for the concept you hold of yourself determines the concept you hold of others. Leave others alone. What are they to you? Follow your own desires. The law is always in operation, always absolute. Your consciousness is the rock upon which all structures rest. Watch what you are aware of. You need not concern yourself with others because you are sustained by the absoluteness of this law. No man comes to you of his own accord, be he good, bad or indifferent. He did not choose you! You chose him! He was drawn to you because of what you are. You cannot destroy the state another represents through force. Rather, leave him alone. What is he to you? Rise to a higher level of consciousness and you will find a new world awaiting you, and as you sanctify yourself, others are sanctified.
Your 'concept of self' is your individual viewpoint and determines your relationship to all things and the order of events you encounter. It is the key to molding your future and transforming your reality. Changing it requires an intense desire and involves 'sacrificing' the old self-concept to appropriate the new. Your concept of self also dictates how you perceive and experience others; therefore, to change others or your world, you must change yourself, as others are drawn to you based on your self-concept.