Touchstones 2/08/2013
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Touchstones 2/08/2013 Friday, February 8, 2013
You are reading from the book Touchstones
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
—Gaelic proverb
When we deal with our faults and imperfections, we are dealing with the basic issues of being a person. We can become bitter and cynical about the imperfections of others, or we can realize every person is incomplete but growing, just as we are. The way we look at the faults in others and the way we look at our own are closely tied together. In our spiritual journey, we must begin with the premise that no person ever achieves perfection.
Perfection apparently is not what this life is about at all, since perfection is nonexistent. We are lovable, and we can love in the process of living our lives. Since we are not perfect, we have to be accountable. We must have standards for our behavior and hold ourselves to those standards, admitting our mistakes and making repairs where we can.
I will try to acknowledge my mistakes and give up the idea of ever becoming perfect.
You are reading from the book Touchstones
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.
—Gaelic proverb
When we deal with our faults and imperfections, we are dealing with the basic issues of being a person. We can become bitter and cynical about the imperfections of others, or we can realize every person is incomplete but growing, just as we are. The way we look at the faults in others and the way we look at our own are closely tied together. In our spiritual journey, we must begin with the premise that no person ever achieves perfection.
Perfection apparently is not what this life is about at all, since perfection is nonexistent. We are lovable, and we can love in the process of living our lives. Since we are not perfect, we have to be accountable. We must have standards for our behavior and hold ourselves to those standards, admitting our mistakes and making repairs where we can.
I will try to acknowledge my mistakes and give up the idea of ever becoming perfect.
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I am a perfectionist. I didn't realize it for a long time, but I am. I sometimes hold myself to such high standards and expectations that I get down on myself for even the most trivial of mistakes. It's quite defeating. You have all seen and shared some of that experience with me here.
I can also be pretty judgmental of others, especially those I used to hold in very high regard. I had such a strained relationship with my father because even tho he told me he loved me very much, I put him on a pedestal as a perfect person that I could never live up to, when it simply wasn't the case.
As I grow spiritually, I am beginning to see how flawed people are, but not in a bad way at all. It's quite amazing. Most good people are just trying to do their best with the resources they have, just as I am. They make mistakes, they judge, they overbear, they fail, just as I do. We are all just trying to make it in this crazy world.
I can also be pretty judgmental of others, especially those I used to hold in very high regard. I had such a strained relationship with my father because even tho he told me he loved me very much, I put him on a pedestal as a perfect person that I could never live up to, when it simply wasn't the case.
As I grow spiritually, I am beginning to see how flawed people are, but not in a bad way at all. It's quite amazing. Most good people are just trying to do their best with the resources they have, just as I am. They make mistakes, they judge, they overbear, they fail, just as I do. We are all just trying to make it in this crazy world.
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