Sovereignty

Sovereignty:

Deep in the core of Self lies the authority to wrestle down inner demons to cooperative, sedentary status. Costumed in fear, demons render powerless that which is supremely powerful. Self possesses complete power to discern lines that others may not cross, complete authority to value Self regardless of outside opinion. No one at any time has any power to influence a conscious state, unless such power is given.

Give away sovereignty and lose Self to other. Retain authority over Self, alone and no other, to gain freedom and connection within. Willingness to stand for something, to take a strong position and hold it even when it’s hard is to gain Self. The Universe will test on this. Fear and insecurity will thrive as life’s challenging maze is traversed. The way out of the maze? …follow heart, especially when it’s hard.

Eleanor Roosevelt understood sovereignty over Self and used it well. I offer several quotes from her here.
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• Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
• Friendship with ones self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
• I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
• We are afraid to care too much for fear that the other person does not care at all.
• We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.