Susan Gammage, a wonderful Baha’i life coach, writes on her website: “As long as we stay in the prison of self, God can’t reach us or help us out. We have to meet Him half way and turn to Him first.”
“Release comes by making of the will a Door through which the confirmations of the Spirit come.” -‘Abdu’l-Baha, (‘Abdu’l-Baha in London, p. 120)