One of the biggest pitfalls in committing to a path of spiritual growth might be falling into a chronic state of self-improvement—of humanly trying to perfect ourselves. When we approach spiritual work from a concept of self that needs fixing or improving, we can get caught in a cycle of feeling that we always need to be better. 

But what if instead we approached growth with an aim of discovering what is already true, and perfect, about our spiritual wholeness? When the approach to individual growth stems from a divine basis, from an understanding of our oneness with Spirit, God—and holds to this—our efforts are more centered on spiritual discovery and on living what we actually already are. And we stop feeling that we can’t be happy until we fix all sorts of things about ourselves.

The fact is, our real, spiritual self needs no improvement. And the actual work of spiritual growth is to discover more of our true selfhood—through an understanding of what God, Spirit, is and what each one of us is as God’s creation. We each include all the qualities of Spirit.