Your perfection already exists.

 

“When Michelangelo was asked how he created a piece of sculpture, he answered that the statue already existed within the marble. God Himself had created the Pieta, David, Moses. Michelangelo’s job, as he saw it, was to get rid of the excess marble that surrounded God’s creation.

 

“So it is with you. The perfect you isn’t something you need to create, because God already created it. The perfect you is the LOVE within you. Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, just as excess marble surrounded Michelangelo’s perfect statue.” - Marianne Williamson, A Return To Love

 

I am in awe of this thought, especially coupled with the idea that “Hate is not the opposite of love, fear is.” And “Love is letting go of fear.” -Gerald G. Jampolsky 

 

In my idea, the purpose of life has gotten very simple lately....

“One of my favorite things is to be walking down the road and see the single flower that is blooming up through a crack in the hard concrete. I just want to stop right there and applaud and say, “You go, baby!” This is true joy.” - Alexander Loyd, The Healing Code.

Many of us, tend to confuse happiness for joy. Happiness is when things are going well in your life and you feel good about it. Joy on the other hand is the feeling you get when you have been through hell and you decide to grow anyway. That flower growing in the crack in the pavement decided to to reach for it’s potential against all odds. It had obstacles in it’s way and charted it’s own path. There is no way this lit could have done what it did by sitting still and looking at the pavement, pondering it’s bad luck. Instead it got there by gathering up the best vitamins and minerals it could from the earth, nourishing its little roots, looking up at the sun and reaching for...