THERE IS NO ONE TO CHANGE BUT SELF; THAT SELF IS SIMPLY YOUR AWARENESS, YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE WORLD IN WHICH IT LIVES IS DETERMINED BY THE CONCEPT YOU HOLD OF SELF
There is no one to change but self; that self is simply your awareness, your consciousness and the world in which it lives is determined by the concept you hold of self Heretofore I thought I could change others through effort. Now I know I cannot change another unless I first change myself.
To change another within my world I must first change my concept of that other; and to do it best I change my concept of self. For it was the concept I held of self that made me see others as I did. Had I a noble, dignified concept of myself, I never could have seen the unlovely in others. Instead of trying to change others through argument and force, let me but ascend in consciousness to a higher level and I will automatically change others by changing self.
There is no one to change but self; that self is simply your awareness, your consciousness and the world in which it lives is determined by the concept you hold of self. It is to consciousness that we must turn as to the only reality. For there is no clear conception of the origin of phenomena except that consciousness is all and all is consciousness.
You need no helper to bring you what you seek. Do not for one second believe that I am advocating escape from reality when I ask you to simply assume you are now the man or the lady that you want to be. If you and I could feel what it would be like were we now that which we want to be, and live in this mental atmosphere as though it were real, then, in a way we do not know, our assumption would harden into fact.
This is all we need do in order to ascend to the level where our assumption is already an objective, concrete reality. I need change no man, I sanctify myself and in so doing I sanctify others. To the pure all things are pure.
"There is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean." Rom. 14:14.
There is nothing in itself unclean, but you, by your concept of self, see things either clean or unclean.
NO ONE TO CHANGE BUT SELF Lecture Lesson #04 - Neville -
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