*PERFECT/*PERFECTION - alse see GOD, HEAVEN, BLISS, ALL, WHOLE, COMPLETE, HEALTHY, ONENESS, CONNECTEDNESS, CONTENT, SYNTHESIS, GROW, EVOLVE, TRANSFORM, BECOME,
Antonyms: IMPERFECT, SIN, FALL, EVIL, DUALITY, SEPARATE, MYSTERY, DESIRE
Paschal Mystery - Power is made perfect in weakness. (1 Cor 1:18)
Made perfect through suffering. (Heb 2:10) The Greek word for perfect is teleioō, which means “complete.”
The illuminated experience balances and completes the experience of the Presence of God as an expansion of consciousness, rather than concentration. It is the discovery of the Perfect One ablaze in the Many, not the forsaking of the Many in order to find the One. (p305) (Mysticism)
I wonder if perfection is from accepting imperfection? (Randy, 2/2/09)
On the way that leads to union with God, on the road to love, we must let go of the illusion of perfection. (Dark Night, p31)
Perfectionism - this sets up many times impossible standards for self and others. It works like acid as it slowly weakens our human hearts and we are robbed of peace of peace and balance that God wants us to have. (Chaplain Mathis, 4/97 En Garde)
Practice makes perfect.
There is perfection in the process - and all life arises out of choice. If the world existed in perfect condition, your life process of Self creation would be terminated. (Conversations, p47-8)
Jesus preached the supreme perfection of man, which is - to do good to one's neighbor, being the sure means of merging oneself rapidly in the Eternal Spirit. (Lost Years, p223)
The fragment of the Secret Gospel of Mark is included in a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria. The letter states that after the martyrdom of Peter, Mark went to Alexandria where "he composed a more spiritual Gospel for the use of those who were being perfected." (Lost Years, p434)
We're "good enough" even though not perfect. The fundamental message of religion is not that we are sinners because we are not perfect, but that the challenge of being human is so complex that God knows better than to expect perfection from us. We don't have to be perfect; just do our best and God will accept us as we are. Being human can never mean being perfect, but it should always mean struggling to be as good as we can and never letting our failures be a reason for giving up the struggle. (How Good, p8,10,47,174)
When asked how humans differ from animals, Darwin answered, "Man is the only animal that blushes." That is because we are capable of recognzing the gap between what they are and what they can be expected to be, and of being embarrassed by the gap. See our mistakes not as emblems of our unworthiness, but as experiences we can learn from. (How Good, p35,39)
We are afraid of being judged and found flawed, less than perfect, because our minds translate "imperfect" to mean "unacceptable, not worth loving." (How Good, p41)
So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matt 5:48)
Made perfect through suffering. (Heb 2:10)
Man is made PERFECT rather than immutable. (Paradise3, p121)
Man's PERFECTION, like every finite PERFECTION, can only complete itself by reaching outside itself. (Paradise3, p125)
Magnificant perfection (Moody Blues)