To “become the shepherd of your own sheep,” then, means to acknowledge that all the subpersonalities within you, the child in you, the adolescent, all those things that still are there, are now your responsibility, and because you’re awake now, because you’re awake—more awake than the rest of them within you—you have to become the shepherd that guards the innocence of the sheep within you. Yeah. You take responsibility. You take responsibility now and say, “I recognize that my mind can’t tell truth from falsehood. As a consequence…as a consequence I will not put myself in a position where that naivete can lead to deleterious results.” You know what I’m saying? It’s like not throwing your pearls before swine. I never cared for the language of that, but you have to take responsibility now for what you allow yourself to be programmed by.
…Take responsibility, to be the shepherd of your own sheep. And that is the awareness that within yourself, within the various archetypes, the subpersonalities, is still the programmable; … And to watch what you’re being, to be aware.
Spiritual Power and Integrity: Ch. 2, pg. 39-41
This book contains the transcriptions from the July and August 2002 lectures presented by Dr. Hawkins.
