Top 1200 Spiritual Perfection Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.

There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.

Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.

During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.

God has this...hobby. He creates perfection. This world is not perfect. We have to learn to separate illusions from reality.

There are not three stages in spiritual life-worship, waiting, and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs. We jump from worship to waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of our Lord.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

There is no control and perfection is arrogant. Practice messiness, letting go, and doing things badly.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life. Nourishment of the feeling level is the basis for growth of the spiritual holistic value. Delicate behaviour on the surface should be such as to nourish, uphold and enhance the Transcendental value where feelings merge into a common source.

This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.

Zen has an expression, "nothing special." When you understand "nothing special," you realize that everything is special. Everything's special and nothing's special. Everything's spiritual and nothing's spiritual. It's how you see, it's what eyes you're looking through, that matters.

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.