Just be

‘Become your better self’ is stupid! There is no becoming—we are, and always have been. What exactly is ‘better’; kinder, more consistent, more productive, more focused, whole or holy? You can try. Go ahead and impress your wife or parents. Wow your spiritual friends or boss, but none of this brings you any closer to Consciousness.

You can’t wow your self! There will always be a part of your self who comes on a lonely full moon night and reminds you that you own all rainbow colors. You can pretend to others that you are someone special but you can’t fool yourself. You can try to hide the ‘inferior you’ but he will follow you around as a shadow in the day-light. You are your self, there is no better self!

J. Krishnamurti called our self messy. We sometimes are the fear, the jealousy, the greed, the lust. We can pretend that there is an observer looking down on the the ego, but isn’t this just the’I’-identity playing games with itself?  ego us too? Maybe we are just pretending to be aware. Then we are so impressed with our advanced spiritual state that we get hooked and lecture others about it.

John Lennon sings in Imagine,

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today.

That’s it! No heaven, no hell, no better self and no lower self. In fact, there is no self, just living for today. We can become aware of Consciousness here and now. We are called human being for a reason, by being ourself we give Consciousness a chance.