August 2025 Daily Guides by Rev. Dr. Michelle Medrano
The Daily Guides have always been a beloved section of this publication. Each month, new spiritual guidance is imparted by members of the Centers for Spiritual Living communities. It’s lifelong insight you can’t find anywhere but Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.
Each day brings two quotes from various wisdom teachers, a personal guide from the author’s life and a powerful affirmation. This daily inspiration has impacted generations of readers.
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Happiness and Self-Love
Affirmation: I am my own true love. Today, I generously extend love to myself.
We begin with a true secret to happiness — loving ourselves. Many think the secret is loving others. While loving others is important and satisfying, what if the first step to the truest of loves is loving ourselves?
What if we consider that we can only be happy and fulfilled to the extent we are able to love and honor ourselves? This might be because of what Holmes tells us about how life can only become what it becomes to us and for us through us.
This means life can only give to us at the level of self-acceptance we can attain. To experience greater good in our life has everything to do with becoming willing to love, honor and respect ourselves.
This is not a selfish endeavor. It is a vital way for us to show up as the best version of ourselves, happy and fulfilled. When we do this, we become powerful and beneficial presences. We also become manifesters of great good in our lives and in the places and with the people who share our lives, such as our families, friends and workplaces.
Maybe it is time to shed any habits of mind that are filled with self-criticism today. Let them go. Begin to affirm and claim self-love.
Quotes
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
— Robert Morley
People must realize that no matter how infinite the Infinite may be, It can only become to them what It can become through them.
— Ernest Holmes, “Love and Law,” page 213
