So one of the things that I see over and over again is people searching whatever they're

going to improve their lives to make changes to overcome whatever it is that's holding

down etc. One of the things I see constantly and hear from people is that they get this

idea in their head that they have to seek some type of perfection, right? So whatever

we become aware of, you know, a better path for us, what happens is that we then start

moving towards that and we're moving ultimately towards an idea, you know, we get an idealized

version of what it's like to quote unquote be a better version of ourselves. So we have

this idealized concept of that and then we start trying to move towards that. But the

issue that I see, something that causes a lot of, you know, suffering and discomfort for

people is that they have this idea and the concept of what they're moving towards is confusing,

you know, the real fruit and aspects of growth and like what's possible in that with a concept

of perfection, an idea of a type of purity and that creates a real problem, right? Because

whenever you get this idea of like purity and quotes in your mind that you're going towards,

you will always be failing, you know, and you will never really be able to fully feel like

yourself because if you're thinking like, oh, I want to be this, you know, this perfect person,

this kind of angel as it were, this fully realized spiritual being, that's not possible. And

you know what I mean? Because you're human, like we're all human. You can't get to this angelic

place of being completely free of impurities. You, you know, you're a person and like part of being

a person is, you know, having flaws, right? Right? So what happens is that people get this idea that

they want to become this pure thing. And so they kind of get uptight and they change their behavior

in a way to fit an idea of how they think they're supposed to be as opposed to just following

looking inwards and moving towards what feels right in terms of growth and development and change

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