Showing posts with label imprefection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label imprefection. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Embracing Imperfections

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead,
it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

--Gaelic proverb

Perfection apparently is not what this life is about at all, since perfection is nonexistent.

When I deal with my faults and imperfections, I am dealing with the basic issues of being a person.
I can become bitter and cynical about the imperfections of others, or I can realize every person is incomplete but growing, just as I am.
The way I look at the faults in others and the way I look at my own are closely tied together.
In my spiritual journey, I must begin with the premise that no person ever achieves perfection.

Since I am not perfect, I have to be accountable.
I must have standards for my behavior and hold myself to those standards, admitting my mistakes and making repairs where I can.