MYSTICISM: Believe yourself a whole - Edward Carpenter

Believe yourself a Whole...
These needs, these desires, these faculties -- 
This of eating and drinking, the great pleasure of food,
the need of sex converse and of renewal in and from the bodies of others;
The faculty of sight, the wonderful panorama of the visible, and of hearing;
The inquisitive roaming brain, the love of society and good fellowship;
The joy of contest, the yearnings of Religion, the mystic impulses of night, of nature, of solitude;

All these and a thousand other impulses, capacities, determinations, are indeed Yourself -- the output and evidence and delineation of Yourself.
They cannot (in any permanent sense) be peeled off and thrown away;
They spring inevitably deep down out of yourself -- and will recur again wherever you are.
There is no creature in the whole range of Being from the highest to the lowest which does not exhibit these and similar capacities, or the germs of them, in itself.
You are that Whole which Nature also is -- and yet you are that whole in your own peculiar way.

Were your eyes destroyed, still the faculty of sight were not destroyed.
Out of the same roots, again as before, would the optic apparatus spring.
Should you die of starvation, you would only begin again immediately after death to take food in another way.
And the impulse of union,which is at the base of sex, lies so deep down that the first re-awakening of consciousness would restore it.


Believe yourself a whole.
Indivisible, indefeasible, re-awakening ever under these conditions.
Expanding thus far, expanding less far, expanding further, expanding this side, expanding that side, expanding all sides.
Ever diverse, yet the same. The same, yet diverse,
Inexhaustibly continuous with the rest and made for love !
To embrace all, to be united ultimately with all.

Edward Carpenter 

Believe yourself a whole...allow everything...every aspect...embrace yourself in totatlity....perceive yourself from essence...look upon yourself...the world, with sacramental perception. Everything is holy...adore yourself...adore the world. Believe yourself a whole. Amen.