CONSCIOUSNESS
The Power of Self-Concept and Race Beliefs
Neville teaches that one's individual viewpoint and self-concept are paramount. The world, including other people, reflects one's inner concept of self.…
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How To Manifest Your Desires
Yes. 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. Tonight's paper may be read by any six people in this room and no two will interpret the same story in the same way. One will be elated, the other depressed, another indifferent, and so on, yet it is the same story. Universal assumptions, race beliefs, call them what you will, they are not important to you. 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.
Neville teaches that one's individual viewpoint and self-concept are paramount. The world, including other people, reflects one's inner concept of self. Universal assumptions or 'race beliefs' only affect an individual to the degree they give them power. To change others or one's experience of them, one must change their concept of self. Others are drawn to us based on 'what we are' (our self-concept), and changing our consciousness sanctifies our world.