What these people mean is that you can not be the Master of your own life until you're a Master of your: emotions, beliefs, prejudices, judgements, opinions, expectations and so on and forth.

You and everyone else IS already a Master; we just have to re-member that we are.

You see you don't have to learn how to be in the Now, because you know perfectly how to be in it. When you were a kid you were LIVING in the state of Now all the time. You had no judgements, no opinions; you just WERE and you just experienced everything with the freshness and newness of the first-time Observer.

But as we get older we forget that this state even exists; we forget because almost no one lives that way around us, and if they do they can hardly ever explain it in a plain and simple language.

That's why this "spirituality" business is so hard to grasp for most people; because nobody laid down the "ground work". Sure they were beings like Christ and Buddha who showed us the way, but that's all they did. They couldn't make us understand by force so they made their own life's living examples of how an evolved being lives.

But who were those beings? Who were those Ascended Masters? Were they better than us? No, they weren't; they were just different. And that difference was mainly because those beings knew exactly who they were; they knew they were the part of the Universal Cosmos and that every being is a part of it and every being is equal on that scale.

But before they were Masters they were humans just like us; they were people filled with doubts, lusts and fears, but they were able to transmute their life experiences into insights and leave their self-pity and self-importance behind. I write about how you can do that for yourself in my book, which you can download for free from here http://www.warriorinyou.com/products3.htm

So Jesus needed 40 days in the dessert to do this and Buddha achieved "enlightenment" siting under a tree. It doesn't matter how, but the end result is the same - those people stopped feeling sorry for themselves because of their past (self-pity) and also didn't feel they are any better or worse than anybody else (self-importance). Those beings became Masters, because when you do that that's who you are - a Master of self, a Master who knows himself to the fullest, a Master of your life.

So right until this moment in your life you were also a Master; you were a Master who didn't knew himself at all. But by doing this work, by showing up and "pushing play" each time you meditate or indulge in any other spiritual practice, you are knowing yourself more and more. And with every step you are getting closer to a place that is the beginning of your new life - a Master consciously aware of being a Master.

And this realization can be achieved by anything You want, because it is You that is making ALL of this work. It is You that is the Creator and the Created. You have manifested yourself into this physical existence so you would experience being Master of Limitations in order to re-experience being the Master of Everything Else.