Sit with Me now, and tell Me what's going on. You are My child, and I will listen. Or We can look at the blues of the sky and the background the sky provides for the clouds. How comfortable they are with each other! Neither the sky nor the clouds feel crowded by the other. How comfortable they are side by side, or the clouds on top of the sky, or, seen from another angle, the sky on top of the clouds. You look upward to see the sky and clouds. If you could look from above, you would see the sky on top of the clouds. They are close, companionable, and compatible.

When I say that you are a perfect being, I do not say that you are a perfect Human being. Furthermore, I do not ask you to achieve a state of perfect Human beingness. Relax. I do not ask you to have a perfect body or to be a sainted being. I do not ask you to be better than all before you, after you, and around you. I do not ask you to be more something today than you were yesterday. I do not ask you to win some kind of race. I do not ask you to achieve some ideal. I do not ask you to be a paragon of virtue.