Embracing Stewardship: The Illusion of Ownership

"Men are not angered people are not angered by mere misfortune by men but by misfortune conceived as injury and the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied. The more claims on life therefore that your patient can be induced to make the more often he will feel injured and as a result ill-tempered." [00:02:48]

"The more entitled that you living with the more entitled I feel the more claims I make on life the more often I will feel put upon and have a mindset that will be self-preoccupied selfish and negative. Now you'll have noticed nothing throws him into a passage so easily as to find a chunk of time which he reckoned on having at his own disposal unexpectedly taken from him." [00:03:28]

"They anger him because he regards his time as his own and feels that it's being stolen. You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption my time is my own. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of 24 hours gosh let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to his employers." [00:04:12]

"The man can neither make nor retain one moment of time it all comes to him by pure gift he might as well regard the sun and moon as his slaves. He is also in theory committed to a total service of the enemy and if the enemy appeared to him in bodily form and demanded that total service for even one day he would not refuse." [00:05:15]

"All my time is a gift I am a servant of God the idea that my time is mine is a lie from the pit of hell. When I speak of preserving this assumption in his mind therefore the last thing I mean you to do is to furnish him with arguments in its defense there aren't any." [00:06:14]

"The sense of ownership in general is always to be encouraged the humans are always putting up claims to ownership which sound equally funny in heaven and in hell and we must keep them doing so much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from humans belief that they own their bodies." [00:07:09]

"Those vast and perilous estates pulsing with the energy that made the worlds in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of another. What a magnificent definition of a body you are living in a vast and perilous estate pulsing with the energy that made the worlds in which you will find yourself without consent and from which you will be ejected at the pleasure of another." [00:07:43]

"It is not my body is not my body it is as if a royal child whom his father had placed for love's sake entitled command of some great province under the real rule of wise counselors should come to fancy he really owns the cities the forest and the corn in the same way as he owns the bricks on the nursery floor." [00:08:12]

"We teach them not to notice the different senses of the possessive pronoun the finely grated differences that run from my boots through my dog my servant my wife my master my country to my god they can be taught to reduce all these sentences senses to that of my boots the my of ownership." [00:09:12]

"And all the time the joke is that the word mind in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything in the long run either our father satan evil or the enemy god love will say mine of each thing that exists and especially of each human." [00:10:11]

"Reflect on that word mind and how deeply illusory it is in our minds and our lives today walk through life with the notion that whatever I have is a gift and then be a giver of gifts rather than a claimer of what is mine." [00:11:04]

"To go through life instead of saying mine saying thank you thank you thank you here here here that's the way to live let's go for that today." [00:12:06]