Being your best self, must include growing that best self into a better best self too

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"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self." William James, an American philosopher, (1842 to 1910) said this. It sort of rings true, in some ways, but it might be more true to say, these days, that man doesn't even know that he has got a true self to be, or to have faith in. He thinks that his lesser self, his mind/body self, is the only self that he is. "You can never be more than who you are—but you can become more aware of who you are." Unknown author. If this was true, though, what is the point of our living here, trying to be our best self, by improving ourselves continually, from our current self? But this author is talking about our true self, which is as it is, and not our body/mind self, which can be improved. God created us with all that we need in us to live our best life as us, but we often neglect being this created self, by our creating a pseudo, false, lesser self of parts of us only, the mind, ego self, for example, ignoring our soul self, our heart self, our spirit self, or in other words, our higher self, that God created us to be, but which we are ignoring by our being only a small shadow of this self, by mind/body living only. But the author is perhaps wrong here, as we can grow who we currently are into a greater soul self too. That is the point of life, to grow, nurture, and increase in our ability to love, by accepting guidance from God, and from other souls too, in our lives. We then also grow in wisdom, and in the knowledge of truth, too. We can be greater that who we are, and this is the purpose of our life here. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Our soul self is our real self.