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This Happy Human 
I thought this for years. But I thought it over & reread the passage from “Hamlet” from which this saying comes & I realized that it’s about being honest with yourself. If you can’t be honest with yourself, you can’t be honest with anyone else.
I guess being honest with yourself is living in harmony with your own nature but I really don’t think that’s what it’s supposed to mean. The program is about living in complete & total honesty, not in harmony with your own nature. I know that’s splitting hairs but on page 58 of the Big Book, it talks about being able to recover if a person has “the capacity to be honest” … which I think is more important to recovery than a belief in a higher power.
Honesty … this is how you are “to thine own self be true”. True means honest.
Just my own two cents!
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