There is an old saying, passed down not through books but through lived experience: “ If you don’t pay attention to age, it won’t pay attention to you.” At first glance, it sounds quaint—perhaps even naïve. Yet when viewed through the wisdom of the great masters and the lens of modern science, this simple phrase begins to reveal something quietly profound. A great master once said: “Consciousness does not reside in the body; The body simply arises within consciousness.” The body, then, is not the source—but the image. Not the screen—but the movie playing upon it. Just as images flicker across a cinema screen without altering the screen itself, the form we call the body appears on the vast, silent screen of consciousness. It is shaped, colored, and animated by imagination, thought, belief, expectation, and suggestion. Modern science now reflects this ancient insight in its own language. Cells are constantly dying and being reborn. Skin renews itself in weeks. Blood in months. Bone in ye...
Consider this, old friend. Within you live two minds, not at war, but performing entirely different labors. One thinks. One remembers. The conscious mind is the chooser. It weighs, reasons, and decides. It is the voice that says yes or no, now or later, this or not this. The subconscious mind, however, does not argue. It records. Faithfully. Relentlessly. Like fertile soil, it accepts every seed placed into it and grows a future from whatever it receives—whether nourishment or poison. And between these two minds— between the chooser and the recorder— stands a gate. The ancients called it discernment. Psychologists call it the critical faculty. Mystics might whisper of it as the inner guardian. It is the psychic barrier. This barrier filters what passes downward into the depths of the subconscious, where ideas take root and quietly become beliefs… habits… identities… destinies. These ideas do not merely pass through us. They take up residence. They quietly begin to run our lives. ...