Be what you are.

“If you want to fly fast as a thought and to any place, you must first start with the conviction that you’ve already gotten there…” (Richard Bach, The Seagull, Jonathan Livingstone)
“The baptized man is a perfect being, a “new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17).
He is deified.” (Christoph Cardinal Schönborn)
Adam and Eve in Eden were already like this. In the very essence, as far as God is concerned, they are already de facto like God; they were gods in God. They didn’t realize it yet. On the contrary, they succumbed to the delusion and illusion that they were wrong, indeed that God even denied them. And so they decided to go in search of deification away from God, away from Paradise. They went looking for what they already had where they didn’t have it and lost it all… Through baptism, God corrects this sin. He gives it all back to us again. As Cardinal Schönborn explains, the early Christians were firmly convinced that a baptized person is already perfect and deified. He had already arrived, as he would say, Richard Bach. He needs to realize it, accept it, and begin to live what he already has. That’s what faith is all about. Believing what we already are and starting to be it. Gods in God. Sons in the Son.
“Though we were dead in sins, he made us alive with Christ – by grace you are saved – and with him raised us up and gave us a place in heaven in Christ Jesus.” (Eph 2:5-6)
“You were buried with him in baptism, and in him, you were raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. You also, who were dead in sins and circumcision of your flesh, hath quickened us together with him, and forgiven us all our sins.” (Col 2, 12-13)
The secret of a perfect being. Being like God. To be God in God. Yes, everything this is already here, already know. You have to believe. Just leave the world of lack, the world of insecurity, the world of thirst and fear, to let go of these patterns of thought and behavior that have been ingrained in us from a young age, where man is a threat to man and where we are still searching to become and what we might gain and so satisfy that terrible hunger of the soul. Just leave the world and enter the world that is God. To realize and believe that God, Himself, is the real world, the one actual world, the universe in which we are destined to live in and find ourselves.
To realize that bliss is not about things and gifts that we have acquired or received from God. Bliss is being. It is being. To be in God. To be gods. In God. Perfectly free. Perfectly normal. Without the scourge of lust, without the mania of fear. In the only normal, that is, in love, in the sharing of love, in the unity of love, as God is love. All this is already here. All this we had already received when we were born again in baptism. All of this we already are. We don’t know it yet. Or we do, but somehow we can’t believe with our hearts and not just our minds. The mind learns, but the seat sticks to the old schemes. It doesn’t want to part with the bondage of the world because the prison of the world is its only home so far, its only bar, and its only miserable security it has had.
And so the spiritual struggle becomes a struggle of faith, a struggle to believe in what it already is, to take possession of what has already been given, to become what we already are, and to discover the bliss of being ourselves as God in God. “Fight the good fight of faith and take possession of eternal life; for to it, you are called and thou hast made a good confession before many witnesses.” (1Tim 6:12)
“And when evening was come, the disciples came unto him, saying: “This place is lonely, and the time is now advanced. Let the multitudes disperse into the villages to buy, “And they shall go to the villages, and gather food.” But Jesus said to them: “They don’t have to go anywhere; you give them something to eat!” Mt 14, 15-16)
“Peter said: “Silver and gold have I none; but what I have I give thee: 
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk!” (Acts 3:6)
Everything that still touches our body, health or sickness, pain or comfort, heat or cold, satiety or hunger, everything that still affects it and the world has on us, and we are just unimportant trifles, details that do not matter. To those who have already discovered who and what they are and genuinely are, dwelling in God. “I didn’t fall in love with you as a joke! I didn’t just love you from a distance. You are me and I am you. You are what you are meant to be for me. You dwell on the heights of my majesty.” (God to Bl. Angela of Foligno)
“To experience the love of Christ, that was his [Paul’s] life, his world, his angel, his presence, his future, his kingdom, his promise, and innumerable good. Except for what was related to it, he considered nothing even as sad nor as joyful. For if what we have here, nothing seemed to him even hard, nor pleasant. And so he despised all that we see, as we despise rotten …and the cabbage… Even to bullies and angry mobs, he looked only as to some mosquitoes. A death, torture, and a thousand torments he regarded as mere child’s play, if only he could to endure something for Christ’s sake.” (St. John Chrysostom)
To believe and accept in God what we are in Him means at the same time to let go and letting go of the world and the things of the world as already surpassed and therefore already useless. Once upon a time, when we did not know God or His Gift, we were important and precious, and we fought over them. But that has passed; it just has been. “The old has passed away, and the new has come.” (2 Cor 5:17)
And even that which we fled from and thought was evil; we now perceive pretty differently because the same being, the same essence, is present in it. “Therefore, I have pleasure in weakness, in reproach, in distress, in too.