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November 3, 2009

Perfection

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 8:07 am

Perfection exists. You just have to adjust your angle of view to see it, and then you’ll have a chance to live it.

The Grasshopper, a number of years ago, came out with an observation that “Reality is perfect.” Yesterday I was out walking and The Grasshopper chirped in and said, “Your life is perfect.”

I immediately had a response that cited all the things in my life that were askew and again heard the phrase, “Your life is perfect.” It was a long walk.

I finally got it.

We falsely define perfect as things being the way they aren’t. There is the rub. When we define things exactly as they are, we see reality, which can only be the way it is. That’s perfection.

Imperfection is seeing things the way they aren’t.

When we discard concepts like “potential,” could,” “should,” “would,” and “ought to,” we get a peek at true perfection – reality. When something can only be the way that it is, it’s perfect.

Whether you trip over a Dixie Cup lid or win the lottery, your life is perfect. It can only be the way it is at this moment.

That doesn’t mean you can’t plan for a different reality. You can. You just can’t discount that what you have now is perfect, because it’s the only way it can be right now.

That’s not resignation; that’s reality, which is perfection.

Most people have perfection defined as ideal. The imperfection in that description is that everyone has a different criterion for ideal. There is only one benchmark for perfection – reality – that which is happening now.

When you claim that your life isn’t perfect, you jump the tracks by railing against reality. That just keeps your attention on what isn’t, preventing you from seeing perfection.

When you come to the conclusion that your life at this moment can only be the way that it is, you have found perfection.

When you find the perfection of reality, it clears space in your mind by ending the debate that your life is not perfect. It’s into that space that new perfection will flow. The odds are better that these new ideas will come closer to your concept of ideal because they aren’t burdened with your old limiting idea of perfection.

When Buddha said, “Everything is as it should be,” he could have just as easily said, “Everything is perfect.”

Everything is reality. When we pretend that it isn’t, life becomes imperfect.

All the best,

John

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