You Are Being Itself: The Whole Kit and Caboodle

Recently, while reading a practitioner student’s paper on death and dying, something struck me so powerfully it eclipsed everything else:

You are Being itself.

The body is impermanent.

The mind is conditioned.

The personality shifts with circumstance and history.

But the subject—the one who is aware—never dies.

Everything we call “me” arises within consciousness:

the emotions, the reactions, the patterns, the narrative of our lives.

These are movements within awareness, not the one who is aware.

Ernest Holmes said,

“There is a Power within you that is greater than anything you shall ever contact in the outer.”

When this recognition begins to land, the entire “self-fixing” project collapses, because we stop trying to repair what was never broken.

Most of us spend years attempting to adjust the personality, hoping that will deliver freedom. Yet freedom comes not from perfecting the persona but from recognizing the Self that precedes it.

Holmes reminds us,

“You are perfect, whole, and complete.”

This is hard for the mind to swallow, because accepting life as it is means acknowledging the role our past choices and conditioned patterns have played. We want outcomes without causes, peace without responsibility, and spiritual maturity without surrender.

But consequences aren’t punishments—they are mirrors.

Holmes said it plainly:

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”

Discomfort reveals where consciousness is misaligned. Seeing clearly dissolves identification. Space opens. Liberation begins.

Holmes supports this:

“As we come to know the Truth, we automatically rise above the false.”

Joel Goldsmith echoes this truth:

“We are not seeking to become spiritual; we are seeking to reveal that which we already are.”

And here is the essential truth:

You are the whole kit and caboodle.

Being itself.

Nothing missing.

Nothing broken.

Holmes said,

“We are not limited by actual boundaries, but by false beliefs.”

A world that works for everyone begins with a world that works within you.

A Question for Your Journey

Do you want things to stay the same?

Then do nothing.

But if you truly want what you're seeking...

What’s your plan?

What’s your practice?

What are you willing to change?

Thomas Troward offers this clarity:

“Our mind is a center of Divine operation.”

When prayer settles and calm arises—even if momentary—acceptance grows. Clarity reveals the truth:

You are the subject.

Everything else is the object.

If you truly want something... are you willing to be the one to do something about it?