When one looks to see who has become a Master, do not look at the path that has been walked.  Look at the heart it took to walk the path.

The measure of a Master is not made by magic tricks and whims of the moment.  To be a true Master is to become the Divine that you are.  A true Master understands that everything external is not the Truth, that the Truth cannot be found outside of oneself.  To become what your Soul is, in a world of deception, illusions, emotion, and lies, is to become a Master.

If one wants to live the life of a Master, one becomes Master of one’s life.  The truth of life, the genuine truth of life, lives within each person.  And so it is that when one masters oneself, one masters life.

What that means is that, to become the Master that you seek to be, it becomes your mission to know yourself and heal yourself into the Truth of who you are, untainted by all things that lie outside yourself.  A true Master responds to life not by becoming overwhelmed, or emotional, or angry, or distraught.  Your true life, the life that will make you the Master that you truly are, lives within you.  A true Master may be found living in a hovel, surrounded by agony and poverty.  The measure of a Man’s home is not the measure of a Master.

The true Master is not the Man who lives upon a hill, overlooking the town where he owns buildings and people.  The true Master has no need to own people, to overpower people.  The true Master has no need to overpower circumstances.  The true Master understands that all things that live outside of oneself are not the measure of the Master.  His measure is not what he owns in the world but what he owns within himself.

Masters have walked barefoot with bloody feet and hungry bellies.  Masters have looked through bars at guards and guns and died on concrete floors.  Masters have stood alone for years, seemingly without friends or riches.  But these that I have seen and called Masters have been one thing.  They have been true, always true, to the truth that lies within them.  The truth that no Man, no prison, no friend, no mansion, can make them what they are not, and that is Master over themselves.

Each person has the opportunity to become a Master, to become calm within oneself by accepting and living the truth that nothing outside of oneself has the power to make you something that you are not.  And what are you?  You are an aspect of God.

- Lauren Zimmerman
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