In-Power Share 4
On unfoldment, 'perfection' and the ego
That has to start with the assumption that I’m not good enough. And so, so much of this work is like, oh, there’s this deep shame somewhere that says I’m not good enough and I need to fix my, I’m broken somehow and I need to fix myself. Whether it’s, and they call it self-improvement, right? Where the other way of looking at it would be, oh, there’s an oak tree. Like at what point in its life, what point of its evolution of its development, is it not perfect? It just says like, it wouldn’t particularly make sense.
Our nature is to evolve, is to grow, is to change, but it doesn’t make us bad before. It’s not something that is essentially wrong that we have to fix. As a matter of fact, that concept is what slows down the process probably more than anything else I see these days, is people thinking that there’s something broken with them instead of just noticing that there’s evolution that wants to happen.
There is simply what’s the next experiment. There is only play. So the way I think about that one is, so when is an oak tree perfect? When it’s an acorn, when it’s like a sapling, when it’s like a hundred years old, when it’s 200 years old, like when is it perfect?
But yet somehow or another, we have to be perfect. But it’s not, it’s just iteration, it’s just evolution. Evolution doesn’t end. The only thing that ends is an idea in our head and our egos. Egos can’t exist if you actually really understand that there is no end, the ego has to evaporate
Hawkins said it this way:
When we truly love something and, thereby, become one with it, it is because we see its intrinsic perfection. In fact, its “faults” are part and parcel of its perfection, for all that we see in the universe is in the process of becoming. In that process, its perfect evolution is part of that perfection. Thus the half-unfolded flower is not an imperfect flower that needs defense. On the contrary, its blossoming is proceeding with precise perfection according to the laws of the universe. Likewise, each and every individual on the planet is unfolding, growing, learning, and reflecting that same perfection.