| "To thine own self be true" said William Shakespeare. | | | | true prosperous you. |
| But do we really take that advice? Do we do things | | | | When we suppress our true selves, we often see the |
| we really don't want to do? Are we with people we | | | | experience of illness and disease. The feelings and |
| really do not want to be with? Do we suppress our | | | | emotions that we try to bury have to come out |
| creativity for fear of criticism or judgment? | | | | somewhere. Louise Hay says in "You Can Heal Your |
| Every time we do any of that, we are not being true | | | | Life" that very often a mental cause of cancer is deep |
| to ourselves. We bury a little bit our ourselves. We | | | | resentment held inside for such a long time that it |
| deny our true spiritual nature. And we feel it deep | | | | literally eats away at the body. Resentment builds |
| down inside. We do ourselves and the world a great | | | | when you deny yourself for what you think is the sake |
| disservice. We are just hurting ourselves. | | | | of others. It is not for the sake of others. It really is a |
| Now I am not suggesting that you don't go to work | | | | no-win situation, despite what race thought may be |
| because you don't want to. I am suggesting as | | | | telling you. |
| Wallace Wattles does in The Science of Getting Rich, | | | | Guilt, shame, feelings of selfishness are all race thought |
| you do your best in the present situation knowing | | | | ideas you need to release when you try to break |
| bigger and better things are coming because you are | | | | through and be true to yourself. We must understand |
| bigger and better. Your true self is bigger than any job. | | | | that being true to ourselves benefits everyone. Being |
| Your true self is more creative than you are currently | | | | true to ourselves is to embrace our true spiritual nature. |
| expressing. "To thine own self be true" means you | | | | Our true nature is that we are magnificent spiritual |
| know this truth about yourself and you aim to express | | | | beings. We are good. We are powerful. We are loving. |
| it. The still small voice within will tell us what is right for | | | | We are prosperous. We are perfectly healthy. We are |
| us. That is our spiritual intuition. Do we shut up long | | | | creative and talented. We are wonderful. |
| enough to hear it? Do we listen enough to heed it? | | | | Denying this makes us sickly, poor, unhappy, lonely, and |
| Do you bow to the pressure of family or friends to | | | | weak. |
| "keep them happy"? Doing that helps no one, not them, | | | | We are unique expressions of life. We, as our true |
| certainly not you. We are all part of one harmonious | | | | selves, complete the wholeness of the one Unity. We |
| whole. Being unhappy to make someone else happy is | | | | are each a critical piece of the puzzle, of the tapestry |
| not possible in a unity of oneness. Part cannot be | | | | of life. Without our expression of our uniqueness, the |
| happy and part cannot be unhappy. It is all or nothing. | | | | tapestry is incomplete. |
| And the "nothing" outcome is the disservice we do to | | | | Emerson said, "We but half express ourselves, and |
| ourselves and the world. | | | | are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us |
| Staying in financial turmoil or poverty is not noble or | | | | represents." And this: "Trust thyself; every heart |
| admirable. It is a disservice to you and the world when | | | | vibrates to that iron string." |
| you think of what good you can do with money. Your | | | | Happiness and fulfillment is ours when we are true to |
| true self is the beloved child of God. It is the Father's | | | | ourselves. |
| good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. That is the | | | | |