Judging Perfection

It's kind of a conundrum. On the one hand, things happen and they seem fraught with all the mistakes you made, all the things you did wrong, all the ways you messed up, and on the other hand, we are all a perfect part of a Perfect Whole. On the one hand, you can really feel like you need to forgive yourself, and on the other hand you have to recognize that everything is perfect exactly the way it is.

In some strange way, we are given a multitude of opportunities to "goof up" precisely so that we may learn the lessons we need to learn, the ones we haven't learned any other way. If we hadn't made the mistakes (or whatever we did) we would not have had the opportunity to learn this most valuable lesson.

And yet, even recognizing that perfection, we are human and still need to learn to forgive ourselves... for judging ourselves. There is truly some element of perfection in all that we do and all that we experience in life, and who are we to judge when we oftentimes have no idea of the underlying purpose (i.e. that infamous lesson we have to learn).

It's the judgment that is our downfall. Why do we trip ourselves up by trying to measure our value based on these life experiences? Yes, we are supposed to work hard in life, yes we are supposed to reach towards right action, and yes, we are given a great gift in everything we experience to grow and learn and evolve and judgment is unjustified in the light of the fact that we are eternally changing and evolving.

Be kind to yourself. Recognize that the moment is perfect, and so are you. Bless yourself; forgive yourself for judging yourself and move on in the grace of that blessing. You are worth it.


Blessings.
- Darshan




(c) 2010 Darshan F Jessop