Facebook and Tweet your friends Shakespeare’s saying: “To thine own self be true/And it must follow, as the night the day/Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
That was inestimable advice coming from the metaphysical wordsmith of the late 16th Century London, England. Can you count the number of times over the years that you haven’t been true to yourself or acted against your better judgment? Ignored your gut reaction to something or someone that was rubbing you the wrong way? Made a promise to yourself that you didn’t keep, in other words, failed to keep your own word with yourself?
Do alarm bells go off inside your head when people say “trust me?” Perhaps they have difficulty trusting themselves on a subconscious level. Which brings to mind three old-school cautionary tips. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never play poker with a man called Doc. And never trust a person who says “trust me.” For instance, if a used car dealer ever tells you, “This car still drives like the day it rolled off the factory floor,” hold onto your credit card for dear life and run for the hills! The best policy is to follow the advice on the back of the U.S. paper currency: “In God We Trust.” Period.
Now, returning to being true to yourself and living your life fully in Truth. Truth is All there is. Therefore, Truth knows no opposite. Truth is Ageless, Birthless, Deathless, Changeless, Perfect, Whole and Complete. Truth is the Alpha and Omega of All existence and throughout All eternity.
Emma Curtis Hopkins wrote the following in Scientific Christian Mental Practice, a book comprised of her class lectures that was originally published in 1888: “Everything rises to acknowledge Truth. You see that is God, for Good is God. Sometimes you will feel the reviving life stream so hot, like a fine elixir, throughout your being, while you are naming God as free life, that whatever you touch will feel thrilled with a quick sense of pleasure. God works in Truth. Tell the Truth of God and the Omnipotent God is moving….
“The principal point of Truth is that satisfaction comes through Mind. Mind speaking Truth through the lips, or thinking Truth consciously, can bring All the satisfaction to the world which the world is seeking. No material process can bring health. By a metaphysical process health will quicken and thrill mankind. Nothing material can strengthen people, but the Omnipotent Truth can strengthen them with All the power of Truth….
“Jesus Christ said we would have tribulations while getting our Good support by telling the Truth, but he said: ‘Be not afraid, I have overcome.’ He meant He had come over all the worldly way of being supported by telling the Truth, and that it would surely come out right with us. Tribulations are the oppositions which we meet by telling the world we get our support by thinking and speaking the Truth. Tribulations are the feelings we have when we first set forth as grown men and women into the way which is exactly opposite to our former way of thinking. It is a tribulation to attempt to cast away all anxiety. It is a tribulation to give up trying (italics mine) to get our living by our old mind….
“By and by you will have great and wonderful miracles of support come to you. Yet, for a long time, some of those who have told the Truth about their Good being unlimited supply may not have the faintest idea where their supplies are coming from. They need to say that their Good is Intelligence. This is a Truth that will soon work out.”
Make it your New Year’s Resolution to quickly demonstrate All the Good you desire by living firmly in Truth, standing in Truth, walking the Truth, and speaking your Truth FAST.
HAPPY NEW YOU!
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” (John 8:32)