You are already whole and sacred July 5, 2026

Affirmation: I embrace and honor all of who I am.

Reading: We are born with only one obligation–to be completely who we are. Yet how much of our time is spent comparing ourselves to others, dead and alive. This is encouraged as necessary in the pursuit of excellence. Yet a flower in its excellence does not yearn to be a fish, and a fish in its elegance does not long to be a tiger. But we humans find ourselves always falling into the dream of another life…Yet when we compare ourselves to others…we only experience the tension of comparing, as if there is only one ounce of being to feed all our hungers. But the Universe reveals its abundance most clearly when we can be who we are. Mysteriously, every weed and ant and…every living creature has its unique anatomy of being which when given over to, is more than enough.

… Of course, history is the humbling story of our misbegotten inflations, and truth is the corrective story of how we embrace each other and forgive ourselves for not accepting our beautifully particular place in the fabric of all there is.

Nepo, Mark, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life you Have, San Francisco, Conari Press, p 11-12.

Spiritual Point of View: “…The  individual subconsciously knows or believes much about [themselves] that contradicts [their] true spiritual nature. The accumulated experience of the whole [human] race is lodged in the subconscious of everyone and operates through everyone until a passageway is cleared back through the mind to the spiritual Presence…” —Ernest Holmes. How to Use the Science of Mind. Golden, CO: Science of Mind Publishing, 2009, 79.

You may discover, as Ernest Holmes teaches, that parts of your subconscious still hold beliefs about yourself that contradict your true spiritual nature. “The accumulated experience of the whole human race is lodged in the subconscious of everyone,” he writes, operating until a clear passageway opens back to spiritual Presence. This is not a flaw in you—it is part of the human journey.

Your path of self-discovery often involves gently clearing away the underbrush of fear, superstition, and isolation that once convinced you that you were unworthy, unheld, or lost. In the divine order of good, nothing about you needs saving. What is needed is remembering. As Holmes reminds us, “We do not save that which was lost; we merely discover that which needs to be found.”

You are already whole and sacred, just as you are. And from that wholeness, you are free to change—not to become worthy, but to more fully express who you already are.