Lesson from the Spirit

"Unfolding abilities. Have you thought about that often?"
"I think so."
"You’ve asked for your abilities to be revealed, but what have you done for that? How often did you turn to God? How often did you accept yourself?
There is enormous potential of power and possibility hidden in accepting yourself.
Where you accept yourself wholly, you are whole.
Where you accept only part of yourself, there is emptiness and distress.
Each of you feels a strength, a hidden potential, but not everyone is willing to let it out, because they do not know how to do it.
"How do you do it?"
"Through accepting yourself. It is a difficult but important path of your becoming.

Close your eyes and imagine how you see yourself. Where you accept yourself completely, you see a radiance around you, without any cracks, inclusions, or chips.
Where you accept only certain parts of yourself, you can see some defects.
They show a person in a transparent golden sphere. And next to them a similar sphere, but with fine cracks like a web, some pieces chipped away.

"Where you do not accept yourself, you cannot be filled; any filling will leak through you.
It is important to make a choice. Every day you face doubts, the question of choosing. Let your doubts work for your good.
"How do you do that?"
"Every time a choice stands before you and doubts arise, stop, turn your inner gaze to yourself and to the one Spirit, and hear the answer there.
Thus you will not only rid yourself of doubts but gain trust in yourself. This trust will grow day by day, helping you accept yourself wholly.
It is important—to accept yourself wholly! Through trust in yourself, in your guiding Spirit, through God. By trusting, you will be able to open without fear or anxiety, but in true grace and allowing yourself to be heard and accepted by yourself. For the sake and blessing of all that is.
So be it. 🙏

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Again they show two people in transparent golden spheres.

"Look at the other person. What do you see?"
"Flaws. In certain places he has cracks, chips."
"You often do not notice how you hide certain sides of yourself, try to conceal them, mask them, yet the pattern still reveals itself to your sight.
By not accepting something in your life—whether past, present, or a frightening future—you steal from yourself the strength and energy that should serve your spiritual formation, your growth. In the end, everything you do simply slips out through those gaps. But the most interesting thing is not that.
"What is it?"
"The more energy you spend concealing certain sides of yourself, the less ability you have to move forward. You simply have no strength left; you have spent it. And you complain that you cannot go forward.

It is a mistake to think that by avoiding memories, avoiding inner discussions with yourself about certain events in your life, you are doing nothing. That is a misconception. You may not understand it, but by doing that you expend more strength and energy than you would if you accepted yourself—every event, all that you had, what is, and even what you fear in the future—accept them wholly. Then you will not let your energy leak away; you close those channels, allow your vessel finally to fill. And with new energy and strength you will go forward, trusting each step.
It is important—to go in trust and acceptance. Without this, forward movement is impossible. Once you realize this and, through realization, accept it, your spiritual growth will be inevitable."