How to achieve Self Mastery or Peace of Mind – listen to or read the 25 lectures from White Bear, the Native American Leader in spirit.
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1. Forgiveness
In your lifetime on earth, you have attended the school of life that was given to you by your Almighty Father to raise yourself. On your pathway you have had many choices, you have had many roads to choose from, and the roads you have followed are your present state is the present state of your consciousness. You might feel that you have made some wrong choices in life, that you have made mistakes, that you have selected the wrong pathway sometimes. My friend, making mistakes on the earth plane is normal, because if you did not make any mistakes, you would not have to attend the school of life here on earth.
You are here to learn from your mistakes, you are here to find yourself, to find your spiritual being, to find the spirit within that became part of you at birth. You yourself are a physical body and a spiritual body, and a cord similar to the cord that connected you to your mother connects them.
At birth you were given a seed, a little grain, by your Father in heaven, a seed he wanted you to nurture in the school of life on earth so you could raise yourself in spirituality. Nurture this seed by love for your fellow beings, by becoming unselfish, and this seed will become your treasure in life. When you nurture it with spiritual food, that is, not the physical food that sustains your life here on earth, no, my friend, spiritual food is from heaven, it is love that you receive and that you bring forward to other human beings, to all living beings and to Mother Nature.
When you raise yourself, when you climb the spiritual ladder, you will see the mistakes you have done. They will come to your mind and you will reflect on them. You will say that, “Well, I did this mistake and I did that mistake, and I am sorry. I see now that this was wrong. I see that I have made many mistakes in life, mistakes towards other human beings”. If you can give comfort to the people that you have caused problems to, and misbehaved towards, then that is part of forgiveness, that is part of forgiving your own behaviour and forgiving yourself for what you have done.
When you can give comfort to the people that you caused problems, that you have misbehaved towards, if you can give them comfort that will not be of any harm, that will be of a loving thought, then you may ask for forgiveness. Everything must be done in love, everything must be of kindness, and everything must be of comfort to the human being that you ask for forgiveness. You do not put any more burdens on the people that you have misbehaved towards.
The way to forgive and receive forgiveness is to build up the love and kindness within yourself, so you can help others, so you can undo in a way the misbehaviour and discomfort that you caused others. What you do unto others, you do unto yourself, and to receive forgiveness, you share with others, you help others, and you bring love to your fellow beings. That is the way to receive forgiveness and that is the way to forgive others, because you know that making mistakes is human in the school of life.
When you forgive and love, you are forgiven, that is the rule of forgiveness. You must forgive and bring love; you must help others, care for others and bring charity. Then your mistakes will be overshadowed, and will be erased by the good deeds that you perform on earth. See, you can be forgiven, my friend.
Always put emphasis on kindness, on unselfishness, on love for others. Always give comfort, and you do not give comfort to others if you yourself want to clean your consciousness and that is of discomfort to the people that you have misbehaved towards. No, my friend, you help them, you love them, you are kind to them, you give comfort, and you extend your mission by giving love to your fellow beings, by helping others, by charity.
In heaven there are no secrets, because everything is open. Your spiritual being cannot hide any secrets anymore. But in this world there is forgiveness, there is love, there is beautification of your self when you, as on earth, climb the ladder of spirituality towards God and his love so you can raise yourself, so you can have love in heart, so you can have peace of mind.
As much as you forgive others, as much will you be forgiven. Forgive everything in love and you will be forgiven. Forgiveness must be in love, because without love there is no forgiveness.
Forgiveness and love give you peace of mind.
2. Humbleness
When you go to bed at night and close your eyes, you may reflect on the day that passed by. A day that has been filled with different activities and, if you were fortunate, you had the necessary nourishment for your physical body. My friend, when you reflect on the day, there have been many challenges, friendly and unfriendly people, friendly and unfriendly thoughts, and if you mastered them with a charitable and humble mind, you should not have any difficulty falling asleep and should wake up in the morning with a rested and calm mind.
When you have humbled yourself, then a wall of light meets unfriendly thoughts, a wall that cannot be penetrated, because it is of love. It is of love for other human beings. When you have humbled yourself, there is no pain, because you have filled yourself with the power of the universe, the power of God. When you have humbled yourself, you have raised yourself above mundane things of the earth, you have raised yourself above unfriendliness, you have raised yourself towards love, the love of your Father in heaven and you have created a shield of protection, even though you feel the sorrow and the misfortune that people bring to other people. Recall the saying of Christ: “Whoever exalts himself, shall be abased, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted”. It is a saying for the spirit world as well as a truth on earth.
When you humble yourself, you receive love from good spirits, from people that are giving loving thoughts to you, and that will strengthen your whole being. When you humble yourself, you are truthful to your inner being, and you will find inner peace, and you will find the love within yourself that you in truthfulness and humbleness give to others. You will not seek for power, because power is contrary to humbleness.
Humbleness is friendliness; humbleness is reaching for the highest within you, the love that you can give to others, love for humanity. When you humble yourself, you will find forgiveness; you will find love from your Father in Heaven. My friend, humbleness will beautify your inner self.
In humbleness you help others, and you do the tasks that are given to you by God, and those tasks are to share the resources and establish peace among people. Humbleness is to show kindness and to erase selfishness within and from the earth plane. Humbleness is to be a light for others, to meet people with love, to correct misbehaviour and to find ways of prosperity for all. Humbleness will create peace on earth and peace within, because in humbleness you see all people as equals. You do not exalt yourself when you know that humbleness is the gateway to heaven within yourself, the gateway to the mightiest power in the universe, the gateway to God, which is love.
My friend, humbleness in the material world is seen as a weakness, but I can say that humbleness is the contrary. It is the power of God. In humbleness you will find the answers to life, you will find the truth of life, you will find your innermost being, the beauty that you have within. When you search in humbleness, a new world will open up, a new, bright, wonderful world that was hidden to you, a world that cannot be reached in unfriendliness and in selfishness. It is a world where love reigns, where God is the power, because God is love, and in humbleness you find the pathway to God.
Christ washed the feet of his disciples, his friends. Did he show humbleness? My friend, Christ himself was humbleness and so can you be. He was a bright light and he showed the way. He was a human being; he wanted you to do the works that he did. Find the beauty within you, the beauty of life. Christ knew that he had God within himself, and so can you. We all have the seed from God within ourselves, and you were given the opportunity to be in communion with your Father in heaven, but you will have to seek to be part of his union, and you find the way to God in humbleness.
What a beautiful message we have for you. Humbleness can be your strength in life. It is your strength in life when you humble yourself. In humbleness you find the heaven within yourself, the heaven of love.
3. Unselfishness
What a wonderful blue planet you live on. What a wonderful Mother Nature created by God. What a wonderful human being you are. What a wonderful creation you are with your physical body, your senses and your intellect. What a wonderful world you have received for you to nurture, to take care of, to be joyful of, to love and receive love from. A blue planet that goes in orbit around the sun, the star that gives you the warmth you need, that gives you nutrition, that gives you life, the sun and the star that reveals to you that God, your Father in heaven, does not differentiate between any of his children, does not differentiate between the righteous and the nonrighteous.
God has given you the wisdom to take care of your fellow beings and of Mother Nature. He has given you the knowledge that you shall not differentiate between people, and that you shall leave selfishness behind, and that selfishness is a passion for you to master, to control and conquer in life.
My friend, you were given all the passions of the earth, you were given love to fulfil yourself, to create joy and happiness, to create peace on earth and within yourself. Love is a beautiful creation because it is of God, and God is love. Love is a passion that is there to fulfil your heart, to fill your whole being with the thoughts, the living force, of God. Selfishness is a passion that is there for you to sustain life. Selfishness is there for you to control with your intellect. When you have mastered the passion of selfishness and you let love prevail in your heart, you will raise yourself spiritually.
Selfishness is the root to the misfortune of your earth. War, hunger and cruelty are all coming from selfishness. Selfishness is there for you to erase in its nature of misbehaviour, misbehaviour towards yourself, towards your fellow beings and towards God, the Creator of the universe. Selfishness is of the animal nature to sustain life, and you as a human being have been given the intellect to create peace and joy, to know that you are but one of God’s creations and that you must share the resources with your brothers and sisters on earth. You have the seed from your Father in heaven, and he wanted you in the school of life on earth to raise yourself, to nurture this seed and become one and in union with him, and that must be done in love, love for your fellow beings on earth.
The seed within yourself can be your treasure, but it must be built in love, must be nourished in love for humanity, for all living beings and for Mother Nature. Then you will raise yourself in spirituality and you will beautify yourself and your creation. You are here on earth to learn that selfishness is there as a vice that you should raise yourself above, and that selfishness is contrary to love, kindness and friendliness.
When you see cruelty on earth, when you see violence, when you see that people misuse power, when you see the madness of the earth in all its forms, it is all coming from the root of evil, the root of selfishness. The only way to conquer and master the passion of selfishness is by love, love of all. You must conquer this passion to achieve peace on earth; you must erase selfishness that is of such immorality and unfriendliness.
You live in a material world and you need to sustain yourself, your own life, but that is not selfishness. You need to sustain your physical body, and there is nothing wrong in having a life where your needs are covered and where you seek comfort. It is a life in excess that goes beyond moderation that is wrong. When you see children go hungry because of selfishness in your world, and when you live a life in excess, when you know that you can share with others that are less fortunate, then you let selfishness prevail. Live in moderation and not in excess, and help wherever you can.
When people of the earth that are wealthy do not share their resources and live a life in excess, then you should remind yourself of the parable from Christ, that says: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” My friend, you have heaven within yourself and you create that heaven on earth that you bring along to the spirit world. If you have not raised yourself in spirituality, if you have not left selfishness behind, if you have not built this treasure in love for your fellow beings, in love for Mother Nature, you will go emptyhanded into the spirit world.
Selfishness will not build up a treasure within you, it will create emptiness. Selfishness will not create any joy, and it will not create your future happiness. When you know that selfishness is the root of evil on earth, then you will understand that selfishness is contrary to the treasure that you can bring along to the spirit world.
There is a treasure of love that you can have on earth, and that you can bring along to the spirit world, and you build this treasure in love.
Sow love on your pathway and you will create such a beauty within yourself. Let love prevail and become unselfish. Then you will create a pathway for others, a pathway towards heaven, towards peace of mind, the heaven that you have within yourself.
You can create heaven on earth when selfishness has been erased from the earth plane. When you know that there is no death, when you know that you are an eternal being, then you will defeat selfishness on earth, because then you will know the truth of your being, the truth of life, and selfishness will be replaced by love and you will truly achieve peace on earth.
My friend, selfishness is the stumbling block of calmness of mind. Let love prevail in your heart and you will have calmness built up within yourself. God is love and he would not give you a passion that could not be overcome and mastered. Know this my friend; know that you can fill your heart with love and that you can master yourself, because that is the will of God.
4. Fear Yourself
My friend, you are on the earth plane as part of your evolution, as a spirit, as a spiritual being. The earth plane is a perfect place for education. It is a place where you have all the passions from love to selfishness. You are here to learn, to study the behaviour of yourself and others, to gain experience and to raise yourself, to go deep into the various elements of life, to find truly the love and the seed that you received at birth from your Father in heaven, the love that you should build up and nurture within yourself, and give and help others. You are here on earth to discipline yourself, to master selfishness and to control your own behaviour. This is the school of life, where you are given the opportunity to find the truth of life, even though it is hidden from you at first, but when you search and fulfil yourself in the school of life, you will find the answers in nature, you will find the answers to all your questions in Mother Nature, you will find the answers to your questions in the behaviour of people and in the nature of your self, the human being that you are.
Look at yourself: You have eyes so you can see, you have ears so you can listen, and you have a tongue so you can speak. My friend, be careful with the words that are coming out of your mouth, because the words are of substance that you send out, first of all to your fellow beings, but also to the consciousness of your world. You were given all the senses for the school of life on earth, so you can master yourself. Use them well.
As a little child, your instincts and the directions that you received from your surroundings, first and foremost from your mother and father, drove you. The character that they gave you from your early childhood, gave you the building blocks within yourself, building blocks of love, of discipline, of responsibility; the building blocks of social behaviour towards your friends and family, how to treat them and how to behave. You were given all the building blocks for being part of the society. Now, that was if you were given such an opportunity, where you father and mother raised you in love and gave you the necessary training in life. When you attended school, your peers and teachers influenced you, and you could look back at your upbringing as a little child, and you would see if you were given the right conditions, the right character, and the right building blocks from your parents. In school you learned more of your character and the character of others. Yes, you learned how to behave in life.
If you were given the pathway towards love, with a responsible behaviour, with a behaviour where you learned friendliness, where you learned to control your selfishness, where you learned to help others, where all the building blocks of life were there to help to raise yourself to a decent and responsible person, a person that saw that love is the foremost building block in life, then you have received a good training ground for your future life. With this position in life, your parents had done their mission for you as a child, then the school had done its mission for you in life.
Now, when you have completed your occupational education, you are ready for your next step in life, the work ground. There are many different occupations and pathways in life and you have received, every one and each of you, the seed within yourself that gives you the different kinds of flowers that are needed within the earth life, the working life on earth. As it is with Mother Nature, you have different flowers, different trees, and different living beings that all contribute to the whole, and so it is with human beings, we all contribute to the whole with different occupations and tasks in life.
No occupation is more important than other occupations. All are equally important, if that is as a cleaner, a construction worker, a lawyer, a dentist, a teacher, a secretary or a waitress. All do the works of the earth, and all are equally important to make the whole, to make your world function. When you can fulfil yourself and find work where you contribute to the whole, then you have found a mission on earth.
Know within your life that passions are there. Know this when you ask yourself, “Am I doing the right things in life? Do I behave towards others, as I would like them to behave towards me?” You have to ask yourself these questions many times in life. That is your control post. That is where you evaluate yourself, your own behaviour. If you feel that you do something to other human beings, living beings, or to Mother Nature, that is wrong, that is caused by your selfishness, then, my friend, you must correct your behaviour. That is the time when you will have the question of fearing yourself, because what you do to others you do to yourself. If you hurt someone, physically or mentally, you are doing the same to yourself, to your own consciousness.
What others are doing to you, how others misbehave towards you, is something that you can protect yourself from, because you can humble yourself and raise yourself above the misbehaviour of your world. You can raise yourself from selfishness, you can control and master the passions of the earth, and you can control your own behaviour. Do not fear others that cannot hurt your spiritual being. They can hurt your physical being, but you can protect yourself, you can take precautions, both for your physical and spiritual being.
Foremost, fear yourself, because you create your own future. When you are kind towards others, you build up kindness within yourself, when you give love to others, you build up love within yourself, when you show friendliness towards others, you build up friendliness within yourself, when you share and give charity to others, you build up this treasure of charity and kindness within yourself. You see, what you do to others, you do unto yourself.
If you are misbehaving towards others and only think about yourself, you create emptiness within, and you will go emptyhanded towards the spirit world. We are telling you the facts of life, we are not telling you stories to scare you, we are telling you the truth. You yourself can make a beautiful treasure within yourself, and you create this treasure by love, by giving of yourself, by charity, by love for others.
Your scriptures have many sayings that are of love, but people have forgotten. They are drowned in their material weaknesses. The material world is a wonderful school of life so you can learn, but the material world is not to gain possessions, to raise yourself above others in wealth in material terms, no, my friend, the school of life on earth is to raise yourself spiritually, to gain experience from the material world where you have all the passions that are there for you to control and master.
Your Father in heaven gave you the opportunity to live your life here on earth. Yes, you returned to earth by your own choice and will, but you saw yourself that you needed to come back, either to learn yourself or to take care of others. You see, there are many reasons for why you return to earth from the spirit world and for where you will return when you have accomplished the school of life here on earth.
My friend, if you follow the pathway of love, you have nothing to fear. You do not have to fear yourself when you follow the path of love, of unselfishness and of charity, when you help wherever you can, when you live a life of decency, and where you are kind and friendly towards your fellow beings.
You have nothing to fear my friend, nothing, when you follow the path towards God and his wisdom, towards the love within the universe. When you seek and raise yourself, you are given the task to be a light for others, so they can learn from you, so you can help them to raise themselves, to raise themselves towards the beauty they can create within. We in the spirit world are here to help you. We are all one. We are all children of God, and we help each other to raise ourselves towards the beauties in life, towards love and towards God, towards peace within ourselves because when you have raised yourself, you will find peace of mind.
You yourself will have to conquer the fear of the world. When you raise yourself in love for other human beings and for Mother Nature, you will raise yourself high above fear.
My friend, love and knowledge dispels fear, and when you know the truth of life that you cannot die, that you are an eternal being, and that you are a child of God, you cannot go wrong.