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“I saw the Angel in the marble and carved until I set him free” - Michelangelo

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THE PERFECTION OF IMPERFECTION

"The true mystic is sustained by his or her own spiritual understanding. The source of all truth and inspiration is within. When you have developed this inner realization you will have gained a strength and peace which the material world can never take from you. Spiritual knowledge bestows security under any and all conditions." -- Manly P. Hall

"I am the condition upon everything when nothing is the condition upon me."

-- No-Thing

"When you see something evil in the world, do not say, 'Here is evil.' Evil is merely imperfection and, on a higher plane, evil is transformed into good by the wisdom of the cosmos. This is a truth which should be engraved into the human soul as a lofty moral maxim. How can I learn to tell myself: 'Here you see naught but imperfection because you are as yet unable to grasp the perfection of this imperfect thing?' When I see evil I should look into my own soul and ask myself, 'why am I not yet able to recognize the good in the evil that confronts me?'" -- Rudolf Steiner, 6/28/1909

"Imperfection is the shadow of perfection, innately bound, as all things are."

--Scott Maurer

A boy from the nearby village came to the Master and said, "I want to come learn from you, Master." And the Master replied, "Okay, but first I want you to go away and imagine the most horrible and heinous thing, the most tragic thing that you can think of.......and then keep meditating on it until you find the beauty in it. When you have done that, come back and we will begin." -- old Temple Adage, recalled.

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