"What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!"
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"The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly."
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"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist"
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"To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end."
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"I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on."
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"Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect."
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"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."
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"To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection."
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"Man is rotten with perfection."
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"If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints."
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"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."
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"Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them."
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"Existence itself stands in need of nothing, for it lacks nothing, whereas everything else needs it, because outside of it there is nothing. Nothingness stands in need of existence, as a sick man lacks health and is in need. Health has no need of a sick man. To want nothing, therefore, characterizes the highest perfection, is fullest and purest existence."
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"Ive seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, theres nothing closer to God than that."
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"Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh."
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"I have so much music to release, but I'm meticulous. I'm like, "You've got to redo that part, redo that part." And people are like, "Just forget that and go ahead with it." But it's all about perfection, about trying to make it as good as you can."
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"The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization."
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"The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway."
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"Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites."
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"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."
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