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The essential need to honor oneself.

09/15/2020 by John Smallman

This morning (Tuesday 9/15/20) I (John) was looking through some notes I had made for myself, and came across this one from April 2016, and with so much uncertainty and anger arising in so many areas of the worlds it really caught my attention. I then thought that some of you might also find it of interest, so here it is with blessings and love, 😊💖, John.

 

The essential need to honor oneself.

As I was meditating this morning the thought “honor yourself” flowed into my mind. And I suddenly realized (finally!) that that is the only rule we need to observe!

If I do not honor myself how can I possibly honor anyone else? The vast majority of humans, regardless of race, color, or creed, were, as children, told and shown that they were not good enough. It was (is?) believed that they had to be taught to behave well and honor others, BUT they themselves were not so honored! After all, they were only children!

We are all teachers, as ACIM makes very clear, and we teach what we believe even if we are unaware of it. So, as children, many of us are dishonored, unacknowledged, discounted, and that is what we learnt and then teach, purely by how we conduct ourselves, how we live our lives for all to see.

Our upbringing makes us feel inadequate at best, and at worst worthless! Our “elders and betters” think this is good for us because it was how they were brought up – children need to be disciplined – and that it is the correct way, otherwise they will become uncontrollable! Then in our teens, sometimes much earlier, we rebel against this unfair and unjust treatment, and are again harshly judged by those “elders and betters!” And we do become uncontrollable.

So, as teenagers and young adults, as we throw off the shaming and blaming we experienced growing up, we construct fronts or masks – of confidence, strength, intellectual ability, whatever – behind which we hide in almost constant fear of being discovered, of being seen as who we truly are. But of course who we truly are – divine beings, the beloved children of God – has also been hidden.

I think to awaken is to become aware that who we are is all that we can ever be – we can’t be anyone else however much we may admire someone else, or the mask behind which that someone else is also hiding – and we need help from those a little further along the path of spiritual growth (we are all without exception, even if we don’t see or acknowledge it, on a spiritual path) to see the person that we truly are. Just who we are, is always perfectly OK – “I’m OK, You’re OK” – because we are far, far more than we can possibly imagine, in fact we are all perfect divine beings who have temporarily forgotten that truth.

Once a person realizes this and starts the essential process of total self-acceptance they do begin to honor themselves, and when that happens it becomes impossible not to honor all others, even though one may not like them or agree with them.

In other words, until we learn to honor ourselves we cannot honor others – although we can pretend to – and once we do start honoring ourselves we cannot not honor others.

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  1. on 09/15/2020 at 3:10 pm Margaret Nuccio

    Yes, that is what we were taught, thank you John! So good to finally undo it!
    Margaret N.


  2. on 09/15/2020 at 8:03 pm carolclark6bigpondcom

    Thank you for this very timely message. Blessings to you. Carol


  3. on 09/15/2020 at 10:01 pm poltorn13

    Thank you John for sharing this writing. It rang very true for me. I can relate of course to the masks and things I hid behind as well as the truth that I also was not fully aware of my Divine Identity and Heritage as I now in middle age am coming to more fully accept. Honoring oneself is Honoring All as we are all connected and One with the Divine Source. If each individual did this what a world it would be.


  4. on 09/15/2020 at 11:30 pm itsy33

    Thank you John 💛


  5. on 09/16/2020 at 3:02 am Lodewijk Langeweg

    It is true that what we morally dislike we are unlike to -dislike meaning unlike- and that what we morally like we are like.
    As we all morally deep down approve of infinitely great courageous wise creative effective altruistic love, and not their opposites, be it what we morally approve of seemingly as an unconscious ideal, in that sense we all already love God and our true Self. And thus it is true, and we can be grateful for how things really are:

    “I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.”
    https://acim.org/workbook/lesson-298/


  6. on 09/16/2020 at 11:28 am George Wahl

    Perhaps to really deeply know one self
    As we truly are
    Is to honor one self…

    Thank you for this morning’s contemplation.


  7. on 09/16/2020 at 8:03 pm Francine A Triebe

    John, Thank you for sharing this treasure! It’s a much needed reminder for these times.


  8. on 09/18/2020 at 8:58 am Andrea Bejarano

    Very nice…an excellent reminder…thank you. Blessings! In Joy, Andrea

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