"The challenge is not be perfect ...
it's to be whole."
Jane Fonda
The Japanese culture have a practice of filling a crack of a broken piece of pottery with a lacquer mixture containing powdered gold. It is believed the golden repair adds depth and beauty to the repaired piece. The imperfection tends to add to the piece, not distract.
Navajo weavers were known to deliberately create an imperfection in a rug which they called a 'spirit line' or a 'spiritual pathway'. This would allow a part of the weaver to escape or be released from the artist. Perfection of pattern was never the goal.
As human beings, we are incapable of living life perfectly. Where did the idea of perfection originate ... surely it was man himself. Jesus the Christ and many masters welcomed children, beggars, and strangers just as they were. Never was anyone turned away because they lacked perfection. It is important for us to shift our goals to wholeness, being truly authentic rather than perfect.
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