“How can you return to your true nature? By a desire for self-improvement? Is it enough to have a love of self that makes wholesome efforts at personal development?
“In my case, such love of myself is faulty, erratic, and unreliable. I need a love that returns me to my self with greater fidelity and constancy. This greater love is Christ’s love for me.
“My own efforts to rectify my heart and turn completely to God are lame and futile exercises, ones that exhaust itself almost as soon as started. Only in yielding myself to God who subtly, in unseen ways, instills into my heart a hidden persuasion that renders any real results. In truth, God seeks me rather than I seek God. It happens easily when I forget myself.”
