Mister Nice Roy Masters from A woman has to be more careful than a man about choosing a mate. Especially, she should watch out for Mr. Nice, the super-obliging Cheshire cat. No matter how honest and hardworking or how devoted a husband to her such a man might be, if she learns he is not […]
Moving Inwards Roy Masters, from ‘How To Be At Peace With Your Problems’ Briefly stated, man compensates away from the ideal state-of-mind through his lack of emotional self-control. As he moves towards what he believes will give him power over his problems, he moves away from his true identity; creating a greater tension and a […]
Moments Of Truth Roy Masters from ‘How To Be At Peace With Your Problems’ Through knowledge of all kinds we attempt to justify ourselves and escape from our inadequate feelings. These inferior feelings come entirely out of our bad reactions to life, and our foolish attempts to compensate for this weakness, instead of correcting it. […]
Fear & Hostility Roy Masters from ‘How To Be At Peace With Your Problems’ Mankind is observed frantically struggling to cut off his emotional reaction to external pressure in very foolish ways. Except through the process of involution that has been prepared for us, there is no way to do this without severing our life […]
The Mind of Godly Love Roy Masters Witness the world—has it solved its problems with 14,000 major wars, or 34,000,000 laws against social problems, or a million drugs against sickness, or even a million churches against the devil? Look at your own personal lives—have any of you found peace, working against your problems, fighting your […]
One To Life, One To Death Roy Masters, from ‘How To Be At Peace With Your Problems’ Herein outlined are the two types of stresses that we create. One stress leads to life; one stress leads to death. We must seek out the essential, invisible knowledge; then must we champion the cause of truth. What […]
When The Chips Are Down Roy Masters Science has proved that emotion adversely affects our bodily metabolism. Response means change. However, any alteration of our nature should be the result of responding to the inside, not reacting to the outside. When we become angry or frightened, certain glands are stimulated to prepare our body to […]
If I Were God… Roy Masters from ‘Cure Stress’ “If I were God,” you may think secretly, “I could never forgive me for what I have done, so how could He possibly forgive me?” Do you judge the judgment upon yourself in hopes of rising higher than the judgment upon you—much as you do when […]
The Rat Race Roy Masters from ‘HYMCKYW’ All of us learn, usually at an early age, to gorge ourselves on everything that gratifies our ego. Soon we are disqualified as humans. We forget love, justice and mercy for each moment. In the twinkling of an eye we lose altitude and forget who and what we […]
A Vicious Cycle Roy Masters Before we learned the meditation exercise, we responded in a vicious cycle to troubles that we emotionally perpetuated. Now we are simply getting back what we deserved and did not graciously bear in the past. Now a virtuous cycle is set in motion through the opposition we create because of […]
