June 2025 Daily Guides by Rev. Raymont Anderson, Ph.D.
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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I See Your True Colors
Affirmation: I acknowledge and celebrate my true colors. As I share them with the world, they heal and inspire others to do the same until the collective consciousness is colorfully whole.
I think Holmes would agree there are times when people impose suffering, abuse and trauma on others. Simply avoiding being a cause of anyone’s suffering is not enough. We need to help them heal it.
For years, as a result of the many traumas I experienced from as far back as I can remember, I hated myself and nearly everything about my life. I suffered daily from the intrusive thoughts of suicidal ideations until one day it dawned on me that I had become the tormentor and bringer of suffering. I had adopted the belief that if I did it to myself first, others couldn’t do it to me.
That shifted one day when I was hired to interpret an event where a vocalist would be singing “True Colors.” While on stage interpreting the line, “So don’t be afraid to let them show, your true colors. True colors are beautiful, like a rainbow,” I had a life-changing breakthrough.
It started when I saw various people, including the Deaf audience members, brought to tears. I felt myself holding back tears. Why was I about to cry? It dawned on me at that moment: I was using the tools of my abusers and bullies against myself. I had been conditioned to stifle my own true colors, to refuse them the freedom to be seen by anyone, especially myself.
As individualizations of Spirit, we are beautiful colorful beings meant to thrive. Today, we recognize this truth, as we inspire others to do so as well.
Quotes
Give a kid a box of crayons and watch him color the world happy. Tell him where to fill which color and watch him dislike everything colorful.
― Nitya Prakash
And so, we suffer, not because suffering is imposed on us, but because we are ignorant of our true nature.
— Ernest Holmes, “The Science of Mind,” page 37.1
