perfection

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you are looking for perfection in everyone around, I tell you, you forget to look for the imperfection inside you. We want everybody else to be perfect. Are you perfect yourself? You have to look into that.

When you see that you are imperfect, then you will stop pointing out and get frustrated about others' imperfection. If we are frustrated about others’ imperfection, we cannot contribute to their growth, to them becoming perfect. This is our dilemma – We want others to be perfect, organizations to be perfect, nations to be perfect, people to be perfect and in this run we forget to see how we can improve ourselves. Right? So when we start looking within, a whole new dimension opens in front of us. Then you are able to educate people without getting frustrated. Then you become a good teacher, a good leader. If a leader is frustrated, what will happen?

Everybody has some flaws, and everybody has some very good points also. If you see only flaws, you will miss out on the plus points. Overnight nobody becomes perfect, so gradually people start becoming perfect and we need to encourage them to become perfect. This is a management science. How to manage yourself, your mind and how to manage your environment.