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Quotes about Perfection


I know I missed the boat called perfection
but my errors are portals of discovery
and there are times
when a little madness sets me free.

Zephyr : Poeticspirit
Gael Bage
 
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I know I missed the boat called perfection
but my errors are portals of discovery
and there are times
when a little madness sets me free.

Gael Bage
Source: http//:addresstofollow.gaia.com
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So what you ain't perfect. You will never be perfect, neither will I. Not because it isn't possible. In our heads, we will all reach some sort of perfection. But simply because it doesn't exist.

Domus Ulixes : Some Kid
Frederik Kerling
Source: Kaleidoscope letters - Letter to the wind
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Observing the perfection in all things grounds me here now.

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
Source: Ugh
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Wanting to be better in performance is like wanting to be happy -- it is very difficult to get there directly.  It is much wiser, first, to focus on the building blocks -- and, in the case of performance, the building blocks are commitment, resilience and ruthless disregard for distractions. 

Laura Teresa Marquez
Source: Early Morning Conversation
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To be great you have to be perfect, to be okay you have to be human.

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
 
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All of man’s ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God’s universe is founded upon its perfection of Balance.
All of man’s ills are caused by toxic poisons generated in his body through unbalance affecting his power of control over the functions of his electric body.
Man, as an extension of God, is creator of his own electric body. He is master of his electric body to the extent of his knowing the Light of God in him.
... God says to man: »What I do, ye shall do«, but man is unbelieving for long ages.
(Walter Russell, The Message of the Divine Iliad, p. 129)

Walter Russell : Gaia Explorer
Walter Russell
 
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"All of you are perfect just as you are and you could use a little improvement"

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi : Japanese Buddhist scholar & Zen master, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
Source: "Practicing Peace in Times of War" by Pema Chodron, p. 31
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"In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry : Gaia Explorer
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Source: Online Article
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I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.

Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976)
Source: The Importance Of Living
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He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the other monks, but his face and his step, his peaceful downward glance, his peaceful downward-hanging hand, and every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, an unfading light, an invulnerable peace.

Hermann Hesse : German writer, winner of 1946 Nobel prize for literature
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Source: Siddhartha, Page: 22
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
 
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Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about? [Laughs]

Alice Walker (1944 - )
Source: Shambhala Sun - May 2007, page 46
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn’t require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It’s subtle and hard to perceive. It’s like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can’t tell others.

Bodhidharma : Indian Zen Buddhist monk who brought Zen from India to China (c. 520 AD)
Bodhidharma (c. 440 AD - 528 AD)
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[Beauty is] "Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness."

Walter Russell : Gaia Explorer
Walter Russell
 
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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

Jean Baudrillard
Source: Cool Memories, 1980-1985, Page: 84
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Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi : Japanese Buddhist scholar & Zen master, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
Source: http://www.rochesterunitarian.org/1996-97/970427.html
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

Wayne W. Dyer : Gaia Child
Wayne W. Dyer
 
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Great accomplishment seems imperfect,
Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
Great fullness seems empty,
Yet it cannot be exhausted.

Lao Tzu : Chinese philosopher & mystic, founder of Taoism
Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
Source: Tao Te Ching, trans. Gia-Fu Feng
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Great accomplishment seems imperfect,
Yet it does not outlive its usefulness.
Great fullness seems empty,
Yet it cannot be exhausted.

Lao Tzu : Chinese philosopher & mystic, founder of Taoism
Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.)
Source: Tao Te Ching, trans. Gia-Fu Feng
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To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus : Roman Emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
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True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.

True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.

The Master allows things to happen.
She shapes events as they come.
She steps out of the way
and lets the Tao speak for itself.

Stephen Mitchell : Gaia Explorer
Stephen Mitchell
Source: Tao Te Ching
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There is perfection in the process—and all life arises out of choice.

Neale Donald Walsch : founded ReCreation Foundation, written Conversations with God books
Neale Donald Walsch
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You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Richard David Bach : American author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach (1936 - )
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Many people ask, “Should I do this or should I do that?” I say, “Why are you wasting your time? Love God and perfect yourself. That is the fastest way to God.” It is the most perfect path to God. Become a principled human being. Become an authentic human being. When you say that you are going to do something, do it. Don’t say you will do something and then not do it. That’s not what a principled human being is like. Thought, word and deed must come together. These are actually the holy trinity within the human being: thought, word and deed. When thought, word and deed are in alignment at a very high level, then you are living a principled life. You are living an authentic life. This takes you to living a divine life.

Swami Sai Premananda
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How do you know how to be perfect? You do not know how to be perfect; you learn how to be perfect. It is the spiritual work that one does daily which awakens your world on the path to perfection. The world begins to reflect how to be perfect by experiences and actions, going on and around you all the time. These are the things that cannot be taught in books, as there are too many variances in behaviour and personality. The tough lessons of love and friendship happen throughout our own lives and we must seek to find the lessons of life hidden deep within all interactions.

Swami Sai Premananda
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Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.

Jose Ortega y Gasset : Spanish essayist & philosopher
Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
 
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We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.

Sri Chinmoy : Gaia Explorer
Sri Chinmoy
 
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What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.

Sri Chinmoy : Gaia Explorer
Sri Chinmoy
Source: The Wings of Joy, by Sri Chinmoy
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When we meditate soulfully, devotedly, we have to accept humanity as our very own. We have to know that humanity as it stands is far, far, from perfection, but we are also members of humanity. We have to take it with us. If we are in a position to inspire others, if we are one step ahead, naturally we have the opportunity to serve the divinity in the ones who are following us. We have to transform the face of the world on the strength of our dedication to the divinity in humanity.

Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth

Sri Chinmoy : Gaia Explorer
Sri Chinmoy
Source: Meditation: God Speaks And I Listen, by Sri Chinmoy
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