spirituality of imperfection
When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you’re doing? You’re chasing something that doesn’t exist. You’re making everyone around you miserable.
You’re making yourself miserable. Perfection? There’s about five times a year you wake up perfect, when you can’t lose to anybody, but it’s not those five
... See moreAndre Agassi • Open: An Autobiography
"The particular nature of our shame tells us exactly all the ways we need to come out of hiding. Shame is difficult, shame is painful, shame is our reinforced recoil from the same experiences that previously seemed to break our hearts and made us feel shameful in the first place. But shame is our constant companion, who for our own good and for the
... See morekind of shocked at how much mental energy is freed up if we stop trying to be special and important
nihilism disrespecter • Tweet
Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less.
If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr
Excellence emerges from intimacy with imperfection
Laura Cincera • Tweet
It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.
—life mantra
—life mantra