Top 1200 Spiritual Perfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy.

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind and the will; we must act on them, we must experiment on them, we must let them permeate our consciousness.

Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

I always felt like I had a job to do and that means you have to perform to perfection.

In the new science of the twenty-first century, not physical force but spiritual force will lead the way. Mental and spiritual gifts will be more in demand than gifts of a physical nature. Extrasensory perception will take precedence over sensory perception. And in this sphere woman will again predominate.

Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church Fathers. For that very reason, the urge to seek a path of spiritual light can be a subtle temptation to sin. It certainly is sin if it means a frank rejection of the burden of our age, an escape into unreality and spiritual illusion, so as not to share the misery of other men.

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

I just enjoy what I do, I don't really strive for perfection, I don't feel pressurised by the competition.

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight.

When I first started reading about the kabbalists, I would hear about them being seen in strange places. It would turn out that they were doing some kind of spiritual work to elevate the sparks. In my life and career, I've had the opportunity to find myself where I could make some spiritual moves, to do some work that is spiritually important.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

Many of us incorrectly assume that a spiritual life begins when we change what we normally do in our daily life. We feel we must change our job, our living situation, our relationship, our address, our diet, or our clothes before we can truly begin a spiritual practice. And yet it is not the act but the awareness, the vitality, and the kindness we bring to our work that allows it to become sacred.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

What they should really do, if they want supreme power, is develop the tonal to perfection.

Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits were there before their discovery and would remain even if we forget them.

Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible.

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.