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   %ACHIEVE DIVINE PERFECT HUMAN CONTROL FAULT FLAW 921013

     We  often try to achieve a divine kind of  perfection
by trying to be humanly perfect, without fault or flaw; by
trying to be in control of thoughts,  behaviors, emotions,
effects,  consequences,  etc. Such efforts always fail. We
cannot achieve  divine perfection through human efforts to
be   in  control.   Divine  perfection  is  not  a   human
achievement; it is  a  divine gift which  we may accept or
reject, but we cannot achieve it through our efforts to be
in control of our imperfections, our faults, or our flaws.

     If  we try to achieve perfection,  we try to  perfect
the  ideals  and  values  in  terms  of  which  we  define
perfection; for how  can  we  be perfect in the absence of
perfect standards? Our efforts to perfect our standards of
judgment   undermine  our  efforts  to   live  up  to  our
standards.  In our resultant insecurity we judge ourselves
and each other harshly, generate alienation, occasion more
mistakes  and  heighten  our inability to learn  from  our
mistakes. Efforts to try to achieve perfection are usually
counter-productive. We will do better to try to understand
our compulsions to try to be perfect,  and to try to avoid
alienative  judgments.    We  will  do  well  to  seek  to
understand each other as we really are.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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