A Course in Love & Healing 
 
Lesson 15

Honoring Your Substance,
not Form

By Dr. Scott Peck & Shannon Peck

Substance – not form. 

Those three words have the power to lift you into the truth of who you truly are.  In fact, to love yourself – and liberate your inherent magnificence – it is crucial to see your life in terms of substance, not form. 

For example, who are Scott & Shannon Peck? Well, Shannon has been a flight attendant, TV talk-show host, mother, wife, writer, speaker, & spiritual healer. Scott has been a reporter, counselor, real estate broker, workshop leader, husband, father, author, and speaker.  But do those labels reveal are substance?  No. All those jobs, occupations, positions, titles, and activities were simply “forms” – ways that our lives have been expressed. 

What have been the “forms” of your life?

If you are a mother, father, husband, wife, son, daughter, that is the form of your life, not your substance.  If you are single, divorced, or married, that too is simply the present form of your life, not your substance.  If you have a job, an occupation, a title, a position, a salary, and tasks, those too are the forms of your life, not your substance.  Are you young, old, white, black, Hispanic, Asian?  These only describe your form, not your substance.

We all must climb out of the clutter of form to get to our substance - the great inner gifts that each of us – without exception – has to share.  The forms of our lives only hint at the substance of our magnificence. We must ask the real questions of substance: Why are we alive? What is our life purpose? What is our life message? These are the questions of substance – the questions that call all of us forth to our highest purpose. There is no higher way of loving yourself than to know your substance. In fact, take your love to the highest level right now and accept this truth about you: It is your spiritual right to know and liberate the substance of who you are.

We may not know you personally, but we are rejoicing that, as you read this column, your substance and unique life purpose will emerge with greater clarity.  Think of the qualities you most cherish in your inner heart as the “true you.” This is your substance. Think of when you are living at your highest peak being. This is your substance. Think of when you are living, thinking, acting as the very Presence of Love? This is your true substance. This is also loving yourself in your substance.

Here is an affirmation to support your rise into your beautiful, needed, and cherished Substance:

From the depth of my spiritual identity, I rejoice to call forth my Substance.  I acknowledge with the wisdom of Soul that my Substance can never be measured by the forms of my life. I listen with humility to what infinite Mind is even now revealing to me about my Substance – my Life Message. I stand in reverence, loving myself in my true Light, accepting the Truth that the Substance of my life, independent of form, is my true identity.  I accept Love’s gentle, healing whisper to my consciousness: “Love yourself as I have created you to be.” 

Welcome to the heart of Love.

Copyright 2001 by Scott & Shannon Peck

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