Huh?  Don’t we all have room to grow?  Aren’t we all imperfect?

Well, yes and no.

So often when discussing personal growth, we hear about destinations.  Dreams that you work towards.  An ideal that you eventually become.  While that certainly makes sense, there is another way of looking at it (of course, there are many ways of looking at it).

You are already perfect.

Michaelangelo said this – “In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”

We are all masterpieces. We have only to chip away the imperfections that disguise our own perfection from the rest of the world.

Looking at ourselves, many of us only see the block of marble, the crude form that hides our own perfect beauty.  We may think to ourselves,  “Wow, I really wish I could be different.  To be like someone else.  To be fearless.  Confident.  I wish I could be like that.”

You already are!

By removing the pieces of ourselves that do not fit, chipping away the imperfections, we gradually reveal our own spectacular selves to the world and everyone around us.