“The subject of Living Your Design through following your Strategy and Authority is probably the most overworked and dealt with subject in Human Design, and it deserves every little bit of attention it gets…
It really is the whole story, and it is the whole story in the sense that it is the synthesis of all of the mechanical information that lies underneath. Everything about Type and Strategy is that it points us toward the only viable solution in terms of being able to liberate the human spirit from the drudgery of the homogenized life and the dilemma of what it is to be Not-Self. We are not equipped to be motivated by propaganda in order to transform our perception of life. It’s not enough for us to be moved, whether spiritually, religiously, or mystically. The fact of the matter is that the mind is something that is helpless in being able to transform the life. It’s helpless. The only thing that aligns the life is the ability to be able to know where to find the essence of personal truth.
I guess that is really one of the most difficult places for a person to go to, to deny the possibility that the other has your truth. It takes a great deal of courage to be able to not only embrace your own authority but to live it. To live it. It’s quite a thing to live your own authority. In dealing with Type and Strategy, it’s the basics; it’s the deep basics. This is the most important knowledge that Human Design brings, and any human being that goes through the process of living his Type and Strategy knows how profoundly this has transformed his life…
In spite of all the things that go on, the dilemmas of mind, and the power of the other to be a conditioning force, if you are clearly and deeply involved in following the experiment of your Type and Strategy then you’re able to find your way through all of that. It’s something else as well. Type and Strategy is the only thing that can begin the process of the transformation of the mind. The transformation of the passenger, of the personality consciousness, of that potential to reach a state of acuity in which, no matter what term we want to apply to, the mind is finally released from the burden of being preoccupied with the illusion. Type and Strategy leads to the perfection of what it is to be us. Basic as it may be, it’s the whole story.
There are those who think that Strategy and Authority, and the deep focus that Human Design has on Strategy and Authority is a kind of slogan…we cannot emphasize it enough. It is what it is all about…I know so many people who, in the study of the knowledge, miss the truth. The truth here is how you operate. If you operate according to your Strategy and Authority, this is what changes the life. It’s the only thing that changes the life…”
- Ra Uru Hu, “Living Your Design”