"While there is nothing wrong with the intention to improve your sense of self and life circumstances, it can be very revealing to discover how this insistence on improvement may be cutting into the direct, embodied experience of a natural completeness that is available now, the pure, miraculous flow of life that is here now, which is not dependent upon first improving yourself. We spend so much of our sacred life energy intent on bettering ourselves and our lives that we lose touch with our native wholeness and completeness, which is always already here, if we will take the time to see."

Matt Licata, from the book "The path is everywhere"