Becoming Godly

 We all want to be better people. I think that's perhaps the major difference between those who are destined for heaven and those who are not--adding, of course, the element of sincerity that means that the wanting is manifest by actively working to become. But for that "wanting" is just hoping. No one needs a miracle until they reach a point where their own effort is without hope. But I digress.

We all want to be better people. But we're trapped in the illusion of a stable identity. I want to be a more patient person, more at peace, kinder to myself. And yet, I see and feel that sometimes I am that person I want to be, though often I am not. 

We cannot be better. We can engage on the process of becoming better. We cannot arrive. We'll never be where the right stimulus in the right situation won't make us a raging lunatic. But we no more are that raging lunatic than we are the saint we were the day before. 

Don't aim at being. Recognize becoming. Work at becoming. Accept the moments when you seem to have made no progress at all after all those years of effort. The yo-yo goes all the way to the end of its string and all the way to the hand.