A Course in Love & Healing 
 
Lesson 23

Coming Into Alignment
With Your Sacred Highest Self

By Dr. Scott Peck & Shannon Peck 
Co-Founders, TheLoveCenter

As a new year opens its doors with infinite possibilities, each of us pauses and asks privately, “What do I really want in life?”

This is a wonderful question – a healing question – because it causes us to love ourselves enough to dig into our inner soul for the most profound and enlightening answers.

Let’s think big together – as big as we can – on this journey of self-awareness. In fact, what is a big enough vision of your life to satisfy your soul’s deep longing?

For ourselves, we came to this conclusion: Nothing could be more fulfilling than living in alignment with our sacred highest self. Imagine knowing and loving your highest self? Imagine living at your highest potential? Imagine being all you were intended to be!

Yes, of course, most of us need more money. Or a more fulfilling career. Or a better love life. These are legitimate goals. But who are you as you seek these goals? Would lots of money, a perfect career, and genuine love fulfill your soul? “Well,” you say, “that might come pretty close.”

Here, however, are some soul-provoking questions: Would you be a different person inside if these goals manifested? And the big question: Do you need to be a different person inside for these goals to manifest?

Such thoughtful reasoning awakens our sacred self. In quiet reverence, love yourself right now by asking, “What is my sacred, highest self?” “What is my greatest purpose in being alive?” Open your heart. Release you own goals. Let the answer come to you softly from the universe. Let your sacred highest self speak to you directly. Breathe in your sacred identity.

Notice how the answer forms itself in your heart – as qualities more than objects, qualities such as light, authenticity, love, integrity, kindness, openness, stillness, reverence, and living in this moment. The lesson gently arrives: Be your highest self from within. What you most seek is not outside you. Let your life move into alignment with your sacred self.

What would be the impact on your life of living in alignment with your sacred highest self? Is there anything more important? What would be the impact on the world around you?    

At some point in our lives, each of us comes to a turning point of soul – a place in consciousness that says, “This is it. I will not continue living my life out-of-alignment with my sacred highest self.” As we make this shift, a massive influx of light instantly applauds our decision to live in oneness with our sacred self.

And with this light comes instruction. We recognize the spiritual necessity of releasing our heavy load of fear and anxiety associated with money, career, and love for the higher path of actually living as our sacred self independent of all form. Our need is not for occasional spirit-breaks from our intense lives. Our need is for a life that is spirit-centered. Sacred living must come first, not second, or next. We deserve to live at peace and in sacred alignment with who we are meant to be.

Every step we take towards our highest self brings us into alignment with the people, resources, and opportunities we are meant to experience and enjoy at the highest level of existence. Whenever we act below our highest self, these sacred soul mates, resources, and opportunities do not manifest. For example, had each of us, the authors, not taken giant mental steps towards alignment with our sacred highest selves after our separate divorces, it is certain that we would have missed each other and not be together today – and you would not be reading this article.* In other words, every decision you make in favor of your sacred highest self creates a new and higher reality in alignment with your highest destiny.

As our intent to live our true selfhood deepens, the sacred pathway opens in a way unique for each of us. The path appears in infinite ways, but always when we are still and conscious, such as when we meditate in stillness, become conscious of breathing in light, practice devotional yoga, or any other means that connects us with our sacred self.

The need, however, is not what to do. Or how. The need is to be – to be your beautiful, sacred self. To let your highest light enrich your surroundings and world. And to be ever so gentle with yourself as you come into alignment. In this awakening to your sacred identity, allow yourself to experience fulfillment already welling up from within – already transforming the status of your life. This is the life you deserve. This is loving yourself well. Welcome to a new year with our full and unconditional support. Welcome to the heart of Love.