I think I figured it out.

What the sentence is really saying is "Return without delay to become
*the person* (who) you truly are." The relative pronoun is simply
dropped in the original sentence, so the "whom," though it sounds a bit
funny, is actually correct?

Am I right?

Kent, the beginning grammarian

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