God receives us just as we are.
But we don’t receive ourselves in the same way.
We don’t love ourselves as we are.
Our deepest work is not so much to “improve” ourselves as to realize ourselves, to see ourselves clearly and dearly.
The small self, hearing the words “Be just as you are” immediately takes it as permission to sidestep the spiritual path.
It whispers: Just do what you want!! Don’t worry no effort is needed…
But we arrive at the truly effortless condition only after practice and more practice.
The secret here is that we are not practicing being “better” than we are. We are simply practicing “kindness” toward “who” and “what” we are…
(Jason Shulman – The Instruction Manual for recieving God)
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