"People say, ‘I am my own master; no one has the right to impose their will on me.

"People say, ‘I am my own master; no one has the right to impose
their will on me.’ Poor things, are they really in control? (When
I say ‘they’, I am referring to their divine self.) Well, no, you
can’t be certain. Others have taken their place – chaotic, dark
forces, passions they allow to rage within. Meanwhile, their true
self is like a prisoner cooped up in some dungeon, fed on crusts
of bread and a little water. They suffer and are miserable.
So many people think themselves free and powerful! And maybe for
a while at least they succeed in imposing themselves on those
around them, or even on a whole country, but their freedom and
their power are only apparent ones. Inside them there is anarchy,
and this inner anarchy is much more serious and dangerous than
political or social anarchy. Prisons, clinics and psychiatric
hospitals are full of it. How long will this go on? Until those
who are conscious and vigilant are able to restore the divine
principle as their inner authority."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov