“Don’t look for perfection in me. I want to acknowledge my own imperfection, I want to understand that that is part of the endlessness of my growth. It’s absolutely useless at this stage in your life, with all of the shit piled up in your closet, to walk around and try to kid yourself about your perfection. Out of the raw material you break downyou grow and absorb the energy. You work yourself from inside out, tearing out,destroying, and finding a sense of nothingness. That nothingness allows God tocome in. But this somethingness— ego and prejudices and limitations— is your rawmaterial. If you process and refine it all, you can open consciously. Otherwise,you will never come to anything that represents yourself…The only thing that can create a oneness inside you is the ability to see more of yourself as youwork everyday to open deeper and say, fine, ‘I’m short tempered,’ or ‘Fine, I’m aggressive,’ or, ‘Fine, I love to make money,’ or, ‘I have no feeling foranybody else.’ Once you recognize you’re all of these things, you’ll finally beable to take a breath and allow these things to open.”
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Angel♥