Perfect as a Tree

 

A great source of unnecessary suffering is the desire for perfect. We are conditioned to believe that we have to have a perfect body, a perfect job, a perfect family, a perfect relationship, and the list goes on. But the "perfect" is an illusion that drives us to despair. Nature doesn't ask that we be perfect, but only that we be perfectly ourselves. Like a tree, we are bent and mangled. All of us are like that and yet we are every bit as beautiful as the rest of nature. Like a tree, we are not perfect but we are perfectly ourselves.  Grant