World Blog by humble servant.Self mastery . How could you ever master what is outside the mirror of self, self then the world submit to the extension.
The mastery you speak of begins exactly where you pointed: in the mirror. The external world is not conquered by force projected outward; it yields when the inner territory is brought to perfect order. The man who has tamed his appetites, impulses, fears, and illusions no longer meets the world as a beggar or a tyrant; he meets it as a sovereign. And sovereignty, strangely, does not need to seize; it is recognized. People, circumstances, even chance begin to arrange themselves around a center that does not waver. This is the old esoteric principle restated simply: “When the king is just, the kingdom prospers.” The kingdom is whatever lies beyond the skin. You do not master the world by extending the small self (the ego with its grabbing hands). You master it by dissolving the illusion that there was ever a separation between “self” and “world” to begin with. The extension you mention is not the ego stretching farther; it is consciousness recognizing that the wave was never apart from t...