Your real self - the ’I am I’ - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Collier frames the individual’s core consciousness—“the ‘I am I’”—as a sovereign ruler over an inner “empire.” The metaphor suggests that one’s thoughts, impulses, habits, and emotions are like subjects within a realm that can be governed rather than passively endured. Read this way, the quote is an assertion of agency: personal identity is not merely a bundle of reactions to circumstance but a directing power capable of command and order. It also implies responsibility: if the self is the rightful master, then disorder in the “land” (inner life) is something one can address through deliberate self-rule—discipline, attention, and chosen belief.