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Q : I know, I know. You have made this point with me repeatedly, and I really see and appreciate the pure and wonderfully generous logic of it. But for me this “perfection” idea still sometimes feels like a fabulous “escape hatch.” Somehow the idea that “it’s all good” makes me not feel I need to work to make myself any better.
A : Well, of course, you don’t “need to.” Need has nothing to do with it. No one is keeping score here. No one is judging or punishing. So it’s not about need. It’s about desire.
Q : Well, I can honestly say I do have desire. I truly wish to do as you have consistently invited all of us to do: Announce and declare, express and fulfill, become and experience the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever we held about Who We Are. I guess I’m just not able to see the “perfection” in taking over seventy years to even understand why I am here—much less step into the living of it.
A : Try thinking of your process in this way: If you had reached years before now the level of demonstration of, let us say, Lao Tzu, do you think you would have found yourself in the position of asking the questions that filled 3,000 pages of nine books?
A : And so you may be among the most prolific questioners of your generation. And do you believe that the questions you have asked, and the answers you have received, have brought you benefit?
Q : Perhaps. There are those who say these questions and answers have, so I guess if I am to believe them, the answer is yes. I don’t want to boast about this, however. I feel humbled by it, not boastful, and I want to always feel this way.
A : You will feel about everything exactly the way you choose to feel, based on your decision about Who You Are, Why You Are Here, and how you wish to demonstrate that.
Can you choose to feel, then, that your not feeling you are at the level of demonstration of Mother Mary or of Lao Tzu, or of others who have been considered masters, has been perfect?