Q : Well, I certainly have enough imperfections to stop myself from imaging that I am some sort of spiritual “leader.” Anyone who knows me will tell you that.
Q: On the other hand, what I don’t want to do, and what I don’t want anyone else to do, is start to feel so bad about ourselves, so “imperfect” and so “unevolved,” that we don’t see ourselves as worthy of even trying to awaken (much less accept that we are awake)—to say nothing of helping to awaken others.
A : If you will allow yourself to see what you and others would call imperfections as part of what’s perfect about all of you—and, by the way, see everyone else’s “imperfections” in the same way—you will create a wonderful balance that will serve you and everyone else whose life you touch.
That balance will allow all of you who accept the Third Invitation to love yourselves just as you are, even as you humbly and genuinely seek to grow and further evolve every day. It will allow you also to give others permission to do the same.
You are a beautiful being, growing and evolving. As I have said many times before in our other conversations: If you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot.