To Live Using Your Own Authority Rightly (Part 1)

★What is your own authority?

We’ve told you from time to time that it’s good to live without handing your own authority over to others, haven’t we?

We haven’t explained this in much detail until now, but put the other way around, it means living by fulfilling your own responsibility (living by the principle of self-responsibility).

Many people may feel this kind of talk isn’t interesting or fun at all, but it’s a very important truth. In fact, it’s a basic part of the education about life that parents should be teaching their children and schools their students.

So today, let’s go over briefly what the authority each person holds actually is, and where the line lies between what you may do and what you’d better not.

First, what is the authority given to each human being? As for the authority shared by all humanity, it’s the work connected with “creating, in the place, position, and circumstances where each person has been set, a world of harmony in which all living beings, nature, and humanity are blended into one.”

And for each individual, it’s “living by expressing without limit the divinity that dwells within.” You don’t have the right to act on thoughts that go against these (the authority of the whole and of the individual). Handing over what you should do yourself to others and then shifting the blame is putting things backwards, and letting your own consciousness be manipulated at will by someone or something is also handing your authority over to others, so these can be called no-go items.

★About not having the right to act on thoughts outside your authority

Human beings do not have the right to act on thoughts and deeds that stray from their original authority (they aren’t entitled to do them).

Of course you have the freedom to decide how to live and what to choose and carry out, but that’s within the range of your own authority. Thoughts, words, and deeds outside that right stray from the laws of the universe, so you must take full responsibility for cleaning up afterward (vibrational adjustment) for as much as you strayed.

What does that mean? It means cleaning up the mess that results from disharmonious thoughts and deeds that cause destruction or confusion.

As we said a moment ago, such acts stray from the path. They’re deeds that step outside the original work of a human being, a way of living that steps outside the very reason humanity is humanity. So until you realize that the road you’ve walked was mistaken, find the right path again, and correct your course, a corresponding amount of hardship comes with it.

It’s like the pain of putting a dislocated bone back in place.

The figures of people who are still suffering on earth today may include that side, too, but this is never meant to blame them. (To be continued)