Practice “self love and love of all others–and
love of the imperfections you imagine you see in both.
In truth, both are perfect in their ‘imperfection,’ for
‘imperfection’ merely means ‘incompletion.”
Neale Donald Walsch
I can’t get that line out of my head – “imperfection” merely means “incompletion”. In relation to our view and judgement of other people, it implies and requests a level of acceptance that most of us don’t achieve on a daily basis.
The sentiment resonated especially strongly today, as I ran into an old colleague who I hadn’t seen for over five years. He told me of the changes in his life and the personal transformation that he had achieved. As he spoke, I could tell that he had in fact changed from the person I knew from five years ago – all for the better. So, what before had been in my view a number of imperfections in his basic character and the dominance of his strong ego over his life, had actually been “incompletions” that needed time to materialize into life changes. He was now a more complete version of his true self.
The quote of course says to also apply this level of acceptance to yourself. We can all be overcritical on ourselves from time to time. But if we view the current iteration of ourselves as a work in progress, an incomplete masterpiece being worked on if you will, then we can achieve a healthy level of self-acceptance that allows us to be fully present with who we are while still acknowledging the better version of ourselves we will one day become.
~Jay Kshatri
www.ThinkSmarterWorld.com
