Place yourself as a CAPTAIN of your ship. You were given the task to invade a certain island during your journey.
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Your life is like a ship, sailing in the world, sailing in the physical environment with all of its challenges and influences, and also sailing in the mental environment with all of its challenges and influences.
On this ship, you have the craft, you have the crew, and you have the captain. And beyond the captain, you have the Authority that is directing the ship, giving it purpose, direction and a destiny.
Within this simple analogy, you can begin to see yourself more objectively, which is necessary now. For there is great change upon the world, and the influences in your mental environment and physical environment are holding you back to a great degree.
Your body is the physical vessel, adapted to its environment, a marvelous instrument if it is guided properly. It can sail the whole world if it has a wise captain and an able crew. It requires many things to stay afloat and must be cared for very well indeed, or it can fail you on the high seas with disastrous results. It is not a perfect thing, but it is capable of marvelous accomplishments if it is well maintained and properly directed.
Your crew are your thoughts and emotions, what the mind produces to direct the body. Here you have a functional crew or a dysfunctional crew, a faithful crew or an unfaithful crew, a competent crew or an incompetent crew. And their competence or incompetence will determine how far this vessel can go, what it can withstand in the winds and waves of the world and how well it can adapt to the presence of other ships and the hazards therein.
Then there is the captain. The captain is you. It is even greater than your mind, for you are greater than your mind, for the mind is the crew. You are the captain. If you do not direct this crew properly, it will become chaotic and disorderly, and everything will begin to become inefficient, and breakdown will follow.
Beyond the captain, there is the Great Authority that gives the ship its purpose, its destiny, its cargo. Your task is to carry out the mission that is assigned to this ship in these waters, in this world. Without the greater purpose, well, the captain and its crew will not have a greater sense of purpose, and disorder will follow most assuredly.
For the captain to really be the captain, the captain must know the cargo and the destiny as well as all the variances of sailing the great seas of life. You must have a foot in both worlds, you see. You must be able to govern and manage the ship and also carry out the greater purpose for the ship so that it can be successful in its voyage in life.
We give you this analogy so that you may look upon your life more objectively and not be submerged in your own thoughts and feelings to the degree to which you cannot see anything.
For the captain must be objective. The captain must have authority. For the Greater Authority is not managing the ship day to day. It is not setting the sails day to day. It is not navigating the waters day to day. That is the job of the captain and the crew, you see. That is the job for you and your mind.
Therefore, you cannot become passive and think the Great Authority is going to manage and direct all things, for this is not the case at all, you see. It gives you direction and purpose. It gives you warnings. It tells you the conditions of the world. But beyond that, it is you who must navigate the changing waters, the changing conditions, the storms and the hazards therein.
The captain must have authority over the crew, or the crew will become chaotic and mutinous. This is the condition of most people. They have no control over their mind, where it goes. They are driven here and driven there by their passions and fears or the intentions of others. They are preoccupied at all times because they cannot focus their minds properly. They know not restraint.
But on a ship at sea, you must have great restraint. You cannot be driven by passions and compulsions and addictions, or the ship will founder, and everything will be lost.
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