By Dr. Francisco Coll
Once you were born into this life, the feeling part of you became molded in the first seven years. Your parents passed on to you the habits, traits and attitudes they learned from their parents. You, in turn, will pass these qualities on to your children. Habits and attitudes will be handed down from generation to generation unless someone, somewhere along the line, decides to do something to change things. There are two Bible verses that refer to this process:
Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon their children’s children to the third and fourth generation. [ Numbers 14:18 ]
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. [ Jeremiah 31:29 ]
What can you do about this? How can you change your habits and attitudes? If you understand that for every feeling you must have an interpretation and for every interpretation a feeling, you will be moving in the right direction. The biggest problem most of us have is that our timing is off. We have little concept of timing. We are either doing the right thing at a wrong time or we are doing a wrong thing at the right time.
We might decide we want an apple, but if we don’t pick the apple off the tree at the right time, the apple will become rotten. Our timing was off. We think we want something but we’re not willing to get up and be involved in it. In our society we have been taught to analyze, dissect, re-evaluate, re-analyze, and re-dissect something that we haven’t even created yet. How can we organize something that is not yet created? How can we know anything if we never try it out and experience it?
We have been taught not to get involved, and because of this, we are afraid to be totally committed within ourselves. One morning we wake up and realize that the years have gone by, and so we have another good excuse not to do anything more about it. Our timing was off.
We are taught to be loyal to all things but ourselves. We are taught that we’re not good, that we’re little worms. It is impossible to be loyal to anything outside yourself if you are not loyal to yourself first. Every thought gathers through you and goes from you, so how can you be loyal to your church, your flag, to anything outside if you are not first loyal to yourself? If you are not loyal to yourself first, you are not being honest with yourself. Our society has created many hypocrites. We think one thing and say another.
Let’s take a look at the church. There are actually four churches. Your state of consciousness is your first church. Your physical body is your second church. Your home is your third church, and where you go to fellowship or worship is your fourth church. Whenever we find trouble in the second, third of fourth church, we can trace it right back to your first church, your state of consciousness. If you don’t have God in your first church, you’re not going to find Him in your fourth church on Sunday morning.
If you want to be successful in the venture you have cut out for yourself here on earth, the first step is to begin being really sincere with yourself. The moment you start being sincere with yourself is the moment you’ll start doing for yourself. Otherwise you’ll be dependent on others, paying a high price for something which already belongs to you.
No person in the universe can take anything away from you, and no one can give you anything. All any one person can do is to become an example and pass on what he or she has gathered together and organized. That person can organize it, break it down into a form and make it simple for you, and if you’re ready for it, you’ll accept is as a part of you. Here is the way-shower, the master. When you become organized you can become a master or teacher for someone else.
Once you realize all these things, you can bypass the dogma, the theology, the man-made rules and regulations, and start understanding the real meat of life, the true reality. No one can do it for you. You have to do it for yourself. You can have a lot of people helping you, but you’ll still have to do it for yourself.
You are the most important thing in the universe to yourself. If you say you’re not, you’re being a hypocrite. We’re not speaking in the egotistical sense, the idea that the world can’t rotate without you. We are speaking in the sense that you realize you came into this world alone, and you go out alone, and if you don’t raise your own level of consciousness, no one else is going to do it for you.
If you can’t be happy at all times, something is wrong. Many people think we’re supposed to suffer here. In every great religion an inspired man with a vision started something great and simple, but someone down the line misinterpreted these ideas. From that point on the whole idea became distorted.
Where is the basic trouble? Visualize your mind as a very sensitive computer. If your computer was programmed to judge and to suffer, it will come out that way in your daily life. It will come out exactly as it was programmed into your computer in those early years. What can you do about it? You have to find out all the good things you have, and throw out all the “junk.” Then you reprogram the good part and build upon it.
(Above content excerpted from “Man and the Universe” by Dr. Francisco Coll, © 1970 & 2008 Alley Creative Inc., All Rights Reserved)
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