Celebrating our Imperfections

I met a man this one time who was trying to impress me by what seemed like him regurgitating spiritual ideas as a stream of words his intellect put together.  Needless to say, I wasn’t impressed. 

As though spiritual awakening is some competition and the one who meditates the most or knows sufficient spiritual jargon is somehow living a perfectly ‘enlightened’ life.  Maybe what’s really not being said is “I’ll keep doing and saying all these things so I can try and control what you think of me”.

I was far more interested in how this man’s heart felt. What his deep heart yearnings were. I wanted to know what made him feel so uncomfortable with himself that he needed to shield behind spiritual metaphors feigning perfectionism.

Equally, I wondered how much I was hiding behind my own spiritual aspirations, i.e. my own discomforts in my ‘not enough-ness’.  What shields have I unconsciously armoured myself with so you don’t get to see or hear the parts that are hurting, sad, lonely and unloved or the parts that are ready to receive love?

For in that vulnerable truth, beyond the shields of pretence, we can finally stand naked and be seen for the raw light that we are. 

May we all wake up from this desire for perfectionism and bring our loving presence to the one within yearning for healing and be ok with our imperfection. 

As Pema Chödrön shares;

“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”

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