THE TRUTH ABOUT YOU
If you want to take control of your life, it’s important that you gain a basic understanding of who you are. Our self-image, which is the picture of ourselves that we hold in our minds, becomes the key to our lives. All our actions, feelings and behavior, and even our abilities, are consistent with this formed picture. We literally act out the kind of person that we think that we are. What we need to be aware of is that as long as we hold onto that picture, no amount of willpower, effort, determination or commitment will cause us to be any other way, because we’re always going to act the way we see ourselves. To be any other way, we must first look at how we form our self-image.
Our Mental Blueprint
From birth onward, we collect hundreds of ideas about ourselves as being good or bad, wise or stupid, confident or fearful and so on.
Through repetition, these often false identities harden into our self-image.
This self-image either allows us to be happy and successful or it tyrannizes our lives. Whether we realize it or not, within ourselves is a mental blueprint. It’s a picture of the way that we think that we are. This blueprint is exact and complete down to the last detail. This summary or blueprint is our self-image. However, this blueprint is not who we are, but rather who we think we are.
The circumstances or conditions that formed our self-image may have been totally erroneous or blown out of proportion, but as far as we are concerned they are true. Once we record this information, we do not question its validity. Most of the time we can’t even consciously recall how or where we obtained this information. We just live as though it were true. Even if it’s not true, we believe it’s true.
The Secret of the Ages
The vast majority has missed the message that all the great teachers since the beginning of recorded history have tried to share with their fellow human beings. The secret of the ages, the one most incredible truth that very few realize, is that at the Being level, which we will call your Higher Self, you are spiritually whole, complete and perfect.
Just as a drop of water has all the qualities of the ocean, you have all the qualities of the Creator within you.
Science, philosophy and religion all teach in their own way that there’s ultimately ONE Power in the universe, and that we’re one with the Power, Energy, Force, or whatever you’re comfortable with. You and I are individualized expressions of all the Power of the universe. This can be called your Higher Self.
We can never destroy the Higher Self within us. We can deny that it’s there, we can try to hide from it, we can lie about it, but ultimately we cannot change the fact that it’s who we are. What we need to do is to recognize that it is who we are and learn how to channel it through our thoughts.
Who You Are and What You Do Is Not the Same
We must understand the distinction between who we are and what we do. Who we are is spiritually perfect, but what we do is not always perfect. The gap between who we are and what we do is created through ignorance. When we don’t know that we are spiritually perfect, it follows that our actions will be less than perfect.
I’d like you to do something right now. Just say to yourself. “I know that who I am is spiritually perfect.” Now listen to the little voice in your head. It’s probably saying, “Oh, no, I’m not.” The affirmation of perfection seriously threatens your ego. Your ego immediately sends back the response, “What do you mean you’re perfect? Come on now, take a good look at yourself. Look at the way you treat other people.
Remember what you did yesterday? You’re always complaining. How about the way you treat your mother, your father, your boss and your mate? How about the way you treat yourself? And remember that terrible thing you did back in 1986? How can you say you are spiritually perfect after that? Take a good look at yourself and stop this nonsense.”
Your Ego Is Trying To Trick You
You see, your ego does not want you to take a good look at yourself. It wants you to take a bad look at yourself. It wants you to identify with everything that you’re not. It wants you to identify with your actions and feel guilty. It wants you to judge, condemn and blame yourself for not living up to the pictures and expectations of yourself and others. You must recognize that your ego is trying to trick you. This is not the truth about you.
The way out of this is to affirm your own perfection. It’s not an ego trip to affirm your own perfection. It’s an ego trip not to affirm your own perfection. Remember, the first and most essential step in changing your life, no matter what you want to be, do or have, is to realize your own perfection based upon the truth about you, that you are spiritually whole, complete and perfect
