Meditation Modulation Roy Masters from ‘How Your Mind Will Make You Well’ Each time you do this exercise, you are creating an increased ability to observe and thereby control your thoughts from within yourself—not because you are told to, but because the exercise makes it so. Each time you do this exercise, you will create […]
Slaves to Emotion
Slaves to Emotion Roy Masters from ‘How Your Mind Can Make You Well’ We may one day become conscious that emotion is killing us and flee from all pressure into an unhealthy repose.When we begin to realize that we have become slaves of a conditioning process that was set in motion by our reactions to […]
Remote Control
Remote Control Roy Masters from ‘How Your Mind Can Make You Well’ Being a vehicle of a new order of life, you will cause others to feel a pressure upon them, which compels them to respond, but only because of your non-response. While they are externally turned on and sensitive to pressure, you are not. […]
Feeding Your Broken Ego
Feeding Your Broken Ego Roy Masters from ‘Eat No Evil’ Anger and resentment are our favorite excuses for going to extremes in sensual self-indulgence. The alcoholic will often go so far as to invent a war game with his wife as an excuse to get drunk and/or become embittered with rage. Since resentment is a […]
Stress and Burnout
Stress and Burnout Roy Masters In order to deal with stress, we must first define what it is. For us, stress is not the sun, wind, rain, or starvation, as it is for animals. For human beings, most stress is simply cruelty, in one form or another, directed at us by other stressed-out human beings, […]
Anger Is A Lack of Love
Anger Is A Lack of Love Roy Masters from ‘How To Be At Peace With Your Problems’ Anger is a reaction that tells our lack of love, understanding, and self-control. We have no love, or we could not feel resentment. Resentment is that unconquered quality that begets resentment; it is the animal reply to another […]
A Man In A Swamp
A Man In A Swamp Roy Masters from ‘How Your Mind Will Keep You Well’ Without meditation, you cannot live with your problems. Neither can you live without them. Once upon a time, when you escaped from what disturbed you, there appeared in you a conscience concerning the way you had handled the situation. Egotistically, […]
Illusions Of Pride
Illusions Of Pride Roy Masters from ‘Adam and Eve Sindrome’ It is an unworthy self that seeks to preserve or acquire a sense of worth with all the wrong people. You can never, ever be at peace. You begin to fear being alone; having nothing to cling to is like not existing. Alone with your […]
The False Faith of Feeling
The False Faith of Feeling Roy Masters from ‘The Secret Power of Words’ Once you have been seduced, a bond is established between you and the source of your corruption. Your corrupter’s mind projects into you and becomes your way of thinking. Your corrupter’s spirit becomes your spirit; his way of believing becomes your way […]
Language and Faith
Language and Faith Roy Masters from ‘The Secret Power of Words’ Language can be treacherous and dangerous beyond belief. It is the purpose of this written word to alert you to the pitfalls of mere rhetoric. Take the matter of faith: religion is supposed to set us on the path toward God. Let us take, […]