Self-Improvement VS Self-Realization

​During all those decades on the self-improvement path 
I believed the assumption that what I am needs improving. 
I never even considered questioning that most basic assumption 
because it seemed to be irrefutable.

But with self realization we’re open to letting go of all assumptions 
and directly sensing now what we are. 
No belief whatsoever filters this sensing. 
It is direct.  

Yet - it does seem a bit contradictory 
that when we do sense the truth of our being directly 
and realize our nature as whole and complete – 
there is then a kind of ‘improvement’ that unfolds.

But rather than an improvement of Self 
it’s more like an improvement of 
our understanding and our sensing and our expressing of Self. 
There’s an alignment or a harmonization that is ever deepening 
between these three aspects of our human expression 
and the truth of Being.
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The relaxing out of all assumptions reveals an aligned sensed understanding of Truth