“A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes, Sweet bath, suavely Scented with ointments, has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.” MenKindLongHandsWomenHairGeniusClothesPerfectionSkinsRemainsArtisticAtmosphereKneesToneScentBosomsIncompleteRefinementDelicacyAndrogyny Author:Charles Baudelaire
“It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.” DoeSelfMatterReasonMomentsLightEarthSpiritualSpiritDarkSimpleExistenceConsciousnessAchieveRocksDivineAdventureHighestLowsPerfectionEssenceRemainsBottomIronyCosmosCosmicImperfectLowestSpectrumIncompleteCrudeDenseDivine PowerNadir Book:The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power Source: The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power
“So, from generation to generation, the spiritual church is rising upwards toward its perfection; and, though one after another the workmen pass away, the fabric remains, and the great Master-builder carries on the undertaking. Be it ours to build in our portion in a solid and substantial manner, so that they who come after us may be at once thankful for our thoroughness, and inspired by our example.” MaySpiritualChurchGenerationsExampleMastersPerfectionRemainsInspiredRisingCarriePortionsFabricPassing AwayUndertakingsBuilderWorkmenThoroughness Author:William Mackergo Taylor
“It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.” YearsLostSecretHistoryDoubtModernCenturyPerfectionRemainsFollowingChemistryMistressInventorCradleModern SciencePoisoning Author:Honore de Balzac
“A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection.” IfsLittlesGriefWorstAngelPerfectionRemainsDisappointmentBitterOnly TimeWhiskeyTime Will TellOnly Time Will Tell Author:Paula Wall
“Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.” HeartSeemsSufferingOrderFoundMorningPerfectionRemainsAngryGuaranteesWorth ItLeatherDisregarded Author:Emo Philips
“The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.” FirstsWarGovernmentFormPerfectMoralPrinciplesCasesRevolutionCitizensDramaPerfectionRemainsContraryMannersForms Of GovernmentAmerican RevolutionAmerican War Author:Benjamin Rush
“Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.” FeelsLongHumanityPerfectionRemainsImperfectSri Lanka Author:Sri Chinmoy
“Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.” WantHeartSelfFoundForeverFateDivinePerfectionEssenceRemainsBlowSupremeSatisfiedBeing YourselfShockGrainTormentParticlesInterrupted Author:Anandamayi Ma