Self-Mastery
WHATEVER WE FREQUENTLY THINK OF with depth and feeling, that we shall gain the consciousness of; this is a law through which any hidden secret may be brought into the light of a clear, positive understanding.
The seventh essential mental state is the realization of supremacy; the knowing of the truth that you, yourself, are the supreme ruler over everything in your being and in your world. We must remove the idea of exercising control over the person through the use of objective will-power, and in the place of that idea establish the realization of supremacy.
When one knows that he is the supreme master of his being, he rules supremely without trying to do so; and herein we learn why he who has attained the mastery of self never tries to master or control anything, not even himself.
You are the supreme master of your being, and to think the truth, you must think of yourself as such.
He is what he is who knows that he is; and he who knows what he is, does what he can do by the virtue of being what he is.
He who knows that he is supreme in his own being exercises supremacy by the virtue of being supreme.
He who is supreme cannot do otherwise but exercise supremacy; and since man is supreme in his own being he must necessarily exercise supremacy in his own being; that is, when he knows that he is what he is.
Man in the real is a master; therefore, when in the consciousness of the real, he does master; and does not have to try. He who tries to be a master does not know that he really is a master; when he knows that he is, he will do that which he has the power to do, not by trying, but by doing what he is in being.
The sun does not try to shine; it is light; therefore, it does shine. The sun does not have to control the sunbeams: the sun creates the sunbeams by being the cause of sunbeams; the sunbeams are created to give light because they proceed from that which is light; and that which is created to give light will give light because it is light; it will not have to be controlled to do so.
So long as we try to master ourselves we shall not succeed in mastering anything; but when we discover that we in truth are masters, we shall succeed in mastering everything without trying in the least to do so.
The realization of supremacy is therefore of the highest value, because this realization will reveal man to himself. He will know that he is supreme in his own being; he will know that he is created with that power, and when man knows what he is he will act accordingly.
Christian D. Larson - from the book "Self-Mastery"
