Accepting Our Imperfections

Written by Mathew Naismith

This post is about a state of consciousness I found myself in last night, I was in a state of consciousness that I accepted all imperfections & that nothing at all was perfect, which was a huge buzz. However firstly I will explain about another recent occurrence I had yesterday concerning a movie titled Sleeping With The Enemy.

After watching this movie I immediately had the strongest of feelings that so many people these days were in this same suppressive abusive relationship. I felt a great number of people were still in relationships like this, I could literally feel their despair and fear. These feelings came from the exact same source as when I predicted the space shuttle disaster, these are different feelings to everyday personal feelings so you know the difference.  When I brought this up with a person in the know they replied that these kinds of situations are actually getting worse not better.

Now back to my experience concerning the acceptance of all imperfections which has a little to do with how I felt after watching the movie Sleeping With The Enemy as I will explain a little further on in this post.

We seem to be always humanly looking for perfection either in our mind, body & soul or all three. If we want to better ourselves in any way that is us looking for a more perfect self than what we are at present, wanting to ascend to a more aware consciousness is no different, is this a bad or good thing?

No bad can come from bettering ourselves in mind body or soul however I don’t think it’s a good idea if we are not accepting our own and everybody else’s imperfections at the same time. The main reason for this is judgement; if we are more perfect we have judged and compared ourselves either to our less perfect self or someone else’s less perfect self.   

This brings us to the movie, the abuser or perpetrator feel they are egotistically better than the victim otherwise they wouldn’t be abusing anyone. Anyone remotely threatening this superiority in anyway will be dealt with, abused. In some cases if the victim is too inferior this reflects back on the abuser as being imperfect, it’s a very fine balance and the more perfect the abuser sees themselves the finer this balance becomes. It’s literally living on a knifes edge for the victim, a less perfect person than the abuser.  

The point is, by being able to see these imperfections within ourselves and others doesn’t seem to lead to this kind of abuse. What always happens when one army sees themselves as more superior over an opposing imperfect army or race of people?  We get large scale abuse.

Seeking perfection without seeing our own imperfections seems to always lead to some kind of abuse either of ourselves or others.

What about the people who seek and/or see themselves more perfect than others, they don’t see their own imperfections but they have them. A controlling ego or being egotistical is a huge imperfection so any way you look at it there is always an imperfection.  

Now to another point, how is an abused person supposed to accept the imperfections in an abuser?

If you are living on this knife edge it’s very dangerous to think that the abuser is imperfect in anyway as this can show through.  It’s really great when a spiritually aware person can just say things  like forgiveness and acceptance but it’s quite impossible for an abused to act on this when they and their family are literally living on the knifes edge.    

It’s funny how one experience after another, when collated, comes together to give us a bigger picture at times. Feeling the despair and fear of abused victims and then a few hours later experiencing an unreal conscious state of total acceptance of our imperfections was astounding enough. After collating these two separate experiences together heightening my awareness of abused victim’s plight even more was even more astounding.