Part 1~

How do you see yourself?   Do you walk around feeling like a beggar or an emperor or empress?  What determines how you see and treat yourself?  Self-respect? Self-esteem? How your parents felt about themselves and each other?  All of these factors contribute to your present vision of yourself.

What is the difference between self-respect and self-esteem?  Do you know?  What I resonate with is this:  how I think about myself equates to my level of self-esteem.   My understanding of Self-respect is that it equates to how I treat myself because of how I think about myself (my belief system).

What naturally follows from this is if I think well of myself, I will treat myself well!  Hence the importance of  weeding out any false beliefs that I have picked up about myself from my early years and from the belief systems of others projected upon me in…

In recent times the greatest revolution has been the awakening that human beings can change the outer aspects of their lives by changing the innermost thoughts and attitudes of their minds.   Truly, it is the only way to make changes that matter and which are sustainable over a long period of time!

The way to restore our spiritual identity is not in the rejection of the world of matter around us, but in becoming an awakened, fulfilled soul free of cravings, distractions, and self-gratification at the expense of others.  This elevated state is only possible when the soul is truly intoxicated with its Self,  fully conscious of its own worth and power, and its deep connection with all there is!

Then, it is possible to dwell, as a guest, in the material/social, three-dimensional, environment without any attachment to things, people, or places.  True freedom expresses itself through unhampered mastery of …