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Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

“Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.”

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Shunryu Suzuki, born on May 18, 1904, was a renowned Zen master from Japan. He played a significant role in spreading Zen culture in the Western world. more

“True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.”

Way Art Seems Happens Speak Steps Events Masters Shapes Perfection Empty Foolish Imperfect Tao Fullness Crooked True Wisdom

Author:Laozi

“Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in it a little more of elegance and intensity; then, multiplying all these minute pressures toward the perfecting and deepening of each life by all the others, calculate for yourselves the gigantic enrichment, the fabulous ennobling which this process would create for human society.”

Humans Littles Moments Care Process Hours Imagine Minutes Demand Perfection Pressure Intensity Fabulous Elegance Human Society Enrichment Multiplying

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.”

Trying Wells Real Joy Hate Perfect Enemy Worry Doubt Cry Anxiety Perfection Anxiety And Worry

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.”

World Humans Soul Joy Realizing Human Beings One Day Messages Highest Perfection Fulfilled Destined Birthright Joy God

Book:The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

“Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth”

Earth Views Meditation Acceptance Divine Highest Perfection Manifestation Transforming Totality

Book:Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction

Source: Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction

“The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.”

Said Impossible Promise Creatures Perfection Mirrors Command Gas Immortal Goddess Radiant Dazzling Idealistic

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.”

Art Fear Realizing Existence Perfection Peril Shields

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.”

Mind Opinion Please Judgment Standards Perfection Determined Satisfied Refinement Hindrance

Author:William Hazlitt

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