{"id":112839,"date":"2026-05-20T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=112839"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:16:47","slug":"conscious-peace-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/112839-conscious-peace-within","title":{"rendered":"Conscious Peace Within"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It is by our works that we are known.\u00a0 If you walk among your fellow men in balance and grace, you become a lifting force to everyone you meet.”<\/em> – John-Roger<\/p>\n

This article by John-Roger was first published in the Movement Newspaper, April 1974.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your subconscious mind is a very powerful force within your consciousness. Some people try to deny its expression; others give in to it; and still others are simply ignorant of the subconscious mind and its action.\u00a0 But when you can learn to work in harmony and cooperation with your subconscious, you can really bring your expression into greater balance.<\/p>\n

The power of the subconscious is so tremendous that there are very few things that can stand against it once it really gets going. It has a wisdom and a knowledge and a beautiful ability to find its way through all the obstacles that have been placed in front of it, side-stepping the adversities and lunging ahead when there are opportunities.<\/p>\n

When your life comes into contact with the lives of others, there will often be communication and interaction between the subconscious minds.\u00a0 And there may be subconscious attempts made to control the other person; and they may be making attempts to control you.\u00a0 And deceit can function within these areas of control.<\/p>\n

What types of deceit do we express as individuals?\u00a0 We express the deceit of emotion where someone asks, “Do you love me?”\u00a0 And you say, “Yes,” even though you might not love them at that particular time.\u00a0 That’s deceit.\u00a0 Maybe you wonder, “But would it be any better to say, ‘No I don’t love you right now,’ knowing that will upset them, than to say, ‘Yes, I do,’ knowing that you will love them later on.”\u00a0 But, I think, even if you tell them you do love them, if you don’t, they know you don’t.\u00a0 And they might respect you more if you’d say, “No, not right now, I don’t love you.\u00a0 I think you’re the biggest stinker in the whole world.\u00a0 But give me twenty minutes because I’m working on it.\u00a0 I loved you before this, and I’m sure once I get over this irritation with you, I’ll love you again.”\u00a0 That’s being honest.<\/p>\n

There is deceit of the intellect.\u00a0 Someone will say they know some particular skill in order to get a job.\u00a0 If they don’t have the skill, they are entering into deceit.\u00a0 It will catch up with them.<\/p>\n

There is also deceit of the subconscious mind.\u00a0 This is like deceiving yourself.\u00a0 You say, “Yes, I enjoyed spending the evening with you.”\u00a0 But the subconscious says, “I didn’t.\u00a0 And it will be a long time before I go out with you again!”\u00a0 The subconscious “has a mind of its own.”\u00a0 You must learn to cooperate with it and work with it and educate it.\u00a0 If you are deceiving your subconscious mind, you may find yourself starting off on one path of endeavor, then backing off rapidly, because you sense no support from your subconscious.\u00a0 Or, if the conscious mind is in the habit of starting one project, and leaving it before it is completed, then starting another and leaving it half finished, then starting something else, etc. the subconscious may still be attempting to complete each unfinished project, to fulfill that which was started; but without the cooperation of the conscious self, it cannot complete; it cannot accomplish.\u00a0 And it will feel betrayal and deceit.\u00a0 It is important that you do not have too many “irons in the fire.”\u00a0 The subconscious cannot handle that.\u00a0 Complete the projects you begin, fulfill the commitments you have made, live up to the promises you have made; then both your subconscious and your conscious self can have success, which leads to a feeling of fulfillment and worthiness.<\/p>\n

When you can be true to yourself, then your subconscious mind can also be true.\u00a0 Your conscious self, as master of the household, then reaches down to the subconscious mind and lifts it up; then both subconscious and conscious can move into the higher expression and function together as a unit for even greater balance and completion.<\/p>\n

Man is that he might have joy everlasting; but man is also held responsible for all of his actions.\u00a0 With this in mind, some people have said.\u00a0 “I’ll just sit and do nothing then.”\u00a0 But this is decision by default because the decisions will be made for you unless you make them for yourself.\u00a0 And unless you make the decision to learn from what you’re doing, you cannot expect to receive the greater action of Spirit as it comes forward.\u00a0 There are great blessings being showered on the earth daily, every moment, every second.\u00a0 You may say, “Sure, I’m just waiting for that time.\u00a0 I’m waiting for the right moment to appear.”\u00a0 The right moment has appeared as soon as you have spoken those words, but you deceive yourself.\u00a0 You have to step across into the threshold of cooperation and learn to work with yourself, to bring yourself into greater abilities, greater realizations, greater enlightenment.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, who do you deceive?\u00a0 Only yourself.\u00a0 You may deceive another person temporarily, but they will find out soon enough that you have deceived them.\u00a0 I suppose we could forgive the deceits of the emotions for there are many reasons why these things are brought forward.\u00a0 And we could forgive the deceits of the mind, for there are many reasons why these are brought forward.\u00a0 And we could forgive the deceits between the conscious and subconscious minds; but can we forgive the deceits of one heart to another?\u00a0 When you have committed a totality of your beingness to another person, can you draw back?\u00a0 It really must be “full steam ahead” because many of the things you’re working through now, that appear to be the turmoil and desperation and heartache, are your joy and happiness tomorrow.\u00a0 It is the depth to which you feel your despair and your agony that is the depth to which you will feel your joy and your harmony.<\/p>\n

When joy comes to your doorstep, despair is there also.\u00a0 We sometimes wonder at the sadness of parting, but what that sadness says is that we had such a beautiful time together that we will miss the good times.<\/p>\n

Everything has two sides to it; and so, we sort of become like a “teeter-totter” in our lives.\u00a0 We are striving for balance.\u00a0 We desire many things in life; but as soon as we can maintain a balanced position where that which could tear us down and that which could build us up, join together, that can become our greatest defense in times of despair.\u00a0 It seems like, so often, we make our condition worse in our mind than it could be in reality.\u00a0 And we’ve often wondered, “Dear God, how am I going to get through this?”\u00a0 Through “this”?\u00a0 What is “this”?\u00a0 You’re here, which does mean that you placed far more importance on your “catastrophes” than they were worth.<\/p>\n

God does not allow one thing to come to his children on earth that they cannot handle — not one thing.\u00a0 We’re tried sometimes to the very extent of our beingness to see if we can hold up so that we can carry a higher consciousness for others.\u00a0 We may be tried in many, many ways.\u00a0\u00a0 We may be tried by our enemies, and those we defeat with ease because we know who they are and we make sure they do not have the ammunition to shoot us down.\u00a0 We have to be more careful of our friends because we place deep, dear trust with them; and they are in a position to try us.\u00a0 But it is our loved ones, our husband, wife, children, parents, who really try us to the greatest extent of our beingness.\u00a0 They know all our weak points; they know where we are vulnerable.\u00a0 They have the ammunition to do some damage.<\/p>\n

If you deceive your loved ones, the disharmony that you will bring to yourself may be more than you will care to handle.\u00a0 It won’t be more than you can bear.\u00a0 You can bear it because God has said there will not be one Soul lost, not one.\u00a0 But it can be a long, long time before you get back to God, in conscious awareness.\u00a0 But if you can bring your own levels of consciousness (the subconscious, the conscious mind, the high self) together in cooperation, if you can do the things that your soul stands in need of having done, if you can change your expression and perform into your own perfection, you can clear past imbalances rapidly.<\/p>\n

It is by our works that we are known.\u00a0 If you walk among your fellow men in balance and grace, you become a lifting force to everyone you meet.\u00a0 You lift all men.\u00a0 You may lift them in ways that do not seem brilliant or tremendous, except when the final measure is reckoned, we often find out that it was the little thing that really made the difference.\u00a0 The difference may have been made by a pat on the back and someone saying, “Everything’s okay.”\u00a0 Or it may have been just a smile at someone who seemed a little low.\u00a0 Or it may have been saying what I call “magic words” to someone.\u00a0 There are six magic words.\u00a0 The first three are “I love you.”\u00a0 And the second three are, “God bless you.”\u00a0 They can cause miracles to happen.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n