Chapter 36Perfection
Book 1. Part One: Letters, Messages and Other Short Written Statements
Mixing will not make you perfect — perfection must come from within.
1 March 1936
* and a harmonisation.
* extreme: whatsoever you do, there is always the possibility of something better and exactly this possibility of something better is the very meaning of progress.
* makes it progressive.
* It may be said that perfection is attained, though it remains progressive, when the receptivity from below is equal to the force from above which wants to manifest.
3 January 1951
* You cannot expect anybody to be perfect unless you are perfect yourself. And to be perfect means to be exactly as the Lord wants you to be.
3 June 1958
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