From Self-Acceptance to Self-Transcendence

Read the Bhagavad Gita and you get a glimpse of how the 'I Am' state looks like:

Self-posed, resolute, you act without any thought of results, open to success and failure.

All desires abandoned, acting without craving, free from all thoughts of 'I' and 'mine'; that woman finds utter peace.

The woman who sees me in everything and everything within me will not be lost to me, nor will I ever be lost to her.

She who neither disturbs the world, nor is disturbed by it, who is free of fear and envy, that woman is the one I love best.

How do you get there? How to do let go of passion, desire, cravings, fear and jealousy. You can't. All you can do is to accept who you are (self-acceptance) and with it have a shot at growing into the person you were born to be. Self-Improvement means that you cut all inconsistencies out of you and face the world with all the energy at your disposal. Light and shadow merge in you, allowing you to become whole. When a whole person faces the world with all her being, she is offered the priceless chance to transcend the self at that holy moment. The 'I' literally melts in the holy Now and suddenly you are free.