Perfection is the ongoing state of God’s oneness living in its un-potentialised perfection of itself dormantly being stored in the infinite energy of unrealised love. When love moves between the created imperfect parts, so called only because they are presently unconscious of their own position within God’s oneness of perfection, the consciousness to see this perfection in their seeming state of imperfection is thereby so created. The parts become conscious of their own position within oneness, and so all eventually takes, or more retakes, its rightful place within perfection, once more again.

The whole idea of God’s creation is to bring conscious reality of his unconsciously dormant truths to each created part of himself, and then to bring to each part the same knowing that God has. Each part finally becomes God within God, knowingly instead of just unknowingly, as before.

Life is agitating you in its way to try to stretch you back into perfection again from your seemingly imperfect position in your trying to be your real self from your false self. You need to be your real self first, and so drop this false self altogether.

Oneness is always perfect, but then it becomes illusion-ally imperfect to its infinite parts, but whilst still retaining its overall perfection.

All of oneness is perfect, but it agitates itself in order to bring back to itself any part that thinks itself to be seemingly separately created. This is like waves running through oneness that are still it, but they still take on a separate existence for a short time as well. The wave might not be a perfect wave as it comes in all its varied differing shapes and sizes, but to the individual wave itself, it is in fact still always perfect. It is just to another wave it is sometimes seen as being seemingly not perfect, because it is seen to be a different wave than itself.

We are all perfect as ourselves, and imperfection only ever arises when we falsely compare ourselves with any of these so called other waves.

Perfection can never be lessened at any time, unless you yourself lessen it by wanting it to happen. When you want something that you already have you hide it from yourself by wearing this cloak of falseness. You are already perfect, you are only growing the consciousness to be able to see this as being exactly so.

Does our beginning consciousness initially cause our thought that we are imperfect then, before we grow it further enough to help us to remove this idea or thought of our being somehow imperfect, or flawed in some way, or another?

Oneness has no consciousness of itself.

Consciousness is an added on part of the parts that is a field that gathers around that part as much as it loves. Yes, in the beginning our consciousness could be said to be undeveloped or imperfect, but as it grows from your ongoing experiences with love, and by gaining an understanding of Love’s truths, you will finally reach the higher forms of consciousness that shows you then that it is merely an imperfect mirror for seeing oneness from. The consciousness of the parts can join together to form a larger group consciousness as well.

Even this consciousness can never show you the full picture though, and eventually to return yourself fully realised again to God, you must also finally drop even this imperfect vehicle of consciousness.

The spiritual journey could then be said to be a journey that is taking us from perfection to perfection, via the imperfect lens of our own consciousness. When God created free parts within himself, he gave himself something to love. When this part allows them-self to receive God’s love, and then also allows it to flow uninterruptedly through themselves without trying to divert its flow, or to change it within any way, consciousness is formed around that part, like a magnetic field forms around electricity moving through a wire.

This consciousness builds itself into a stronger field as we learn about love’s truths from each and every experience that we go through. Every experience brings us another new lesson from love. All energy is love’s energy. Eventually we reach a level of consciousness called God consciousness, from which we then see clearly our own position within God. We move back into God then, and so our consciousness is again all dissipated as we live from real knowing then, rather than only from its mirror, and which has been our consciousness.

Yes, God consciousness is not the ending, but the mere beginning of your ongoing journey with God, going first into, and then journeying through God’s love.

This is like the martial artist who, upon earning his black belt, is told by his master, that this point in his journey is where his real journey begins. When his black belt has again faded back to being white again, only then will he be starting to approach real mastery of the martial arts.

The belt itself has been imperfectly perfect the whole time, and in the end it shows to the student his own level of perfect imperfection.

Imperfectly perfect is seen to be the same as perfectly imperfect. The perfection of imperfection is complete.

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The Way of Love

Love is not a choice; it is a state of being. Love is not a prerrogative of the human condition; love is inherent in our being, as it is justice or mercy and faith, which are all manifestations of love. Because love is the completion of being, and it is said it is the fulfillement of all law. You cannot choose love as much as you cannot choose to have brown or blue eyes; it all comes with the package. Love is particularly the highest manifestation of virtue and wisdom.

If love were considered a choice, life would be a problem, and so it is, because we think we must pick and choose love, or reject it. The difficult questions of life, those that arise with every human flaw, have their root in our choices as human beings. No matter how long a time we get to make our choice, we would always miss the mark, because between love and hate, there is a miryad of lesser, incipient feelings. And what is less than love is double mindedness. And so we are, unless we become aware of the problematic, and go to the roots.

Going to the roots of the problem is going to the depths of humility, where we have our being.

There is in the human being three known states of being: conscious, subconscious and unconscious. Solving a problem doesn’t finish it, because we have simply arrived to the conclusion, after so and so experiences, that we have a problem where it is difficult for us to love in deed and truth. This, precisely, allows us to remain looking at the problem from different angles; and this looking, just this turning the problem around, will not allow the problem to be relegated to the subconscious.

 As soon as we –who have an unsolved problem– allow it to fall into the subconscious, we are relegating it to our history of unsolvable problems. On the other hand, there was never a problem that went for long without a solution if we just kept an abstract looking at it without thought, without valuing its pros and cons, or seeking to bring any solutions. We need to have the intention to relax in it as much as possible. And we shall see, eventually, what happens. We should want to do it daily.

Because any problem that becomes subconcious is half way to become obliterated by the deluge of our past, unsolved problems, due to our incapacity to pay attention without our history of complains about the issue at hand. We so much choose to do something more convincing, something more akin to our ego necessities that feelings of love and justice and mercy do not fit in the picture. We usually want to judge others without a clear mind and heart, and that is counterproductive to our mental sanity.

But love is so persistent and enormously powerful that from time to time, as we find a moment of respite, of anonimity, of peace and quiet, it will find a way to appear, sporadically so, quietly, so quietly that it will go unnoticed at first. 

But with all our greed, anger and fear in which we live nowadays, usually it is quite natural that our unobservant ways of love, will become a simple dramatism we will flash at the soap opera, or the movie, where we can shed a tear or two. And those feelings will be short of love; they will be tainted instead with all the gamut of selfish desires and lower passions the soap opera personages will flare up in our subconscious.

As the lack of love in our lives aggravate this way, the problem is relegated to the universal unconscious. It is in this unconscious where all the good, and the bad and the ugly reside. Without enough help, without a guide, any human being that might dare to go into the deep and dark waters of the unconscious, would easily get lost, forever.

Nevertheless, there is help. Meditation provides the necessary help to go into the unconscious and bring up the power of love in our lives. For there is a Spirit in man –and woman–, resilient, immensely powerful enough to rescue us from the unsconcious every time we go in meditation. The purpose of this Spirit of Christ is to help us learn to remain conscious in the depths of the unconscious. Every time we would get paralyzed by the fear, or by the anger or by the greed we might encounter during our meditation, when we go deep into the “waters” of the unconscious, we would come up instead with new insight, new and renovated equanimity, and of course new frontiers, for we have been expanding our dominions during meditation. Remember: we are learning to remain conscious even in the depths of the universal unconscious.

Moreover, our guide on the path of meditation, who has been the Spirit of Christ, or the Spirit of God, has been marking the terrain, as ours. For everytime we would go into meditation, we will find that we can remain conscious and in equilibrium whenever we get to face the problem that used to bother us in the beginning.

Nevertheless, we won’t solve any problems by striving to find a solution; but by accepting the riddle or problem as part of life. It is when we stop just “seeking” for solutions, and instead we become accepting the Spirit of Christ in our lives, accepting the will of God. It is only then, that we have become a human being in all the essential, pure meaning of what that signifies, truly.

It is only then that we might have enough “presence” to act without attachments, and even though the outcome would not be what we may have expected, still we would be able to see the problematic without any suffering on our part. That doesn’t mean we would become indifferent to people and things, but we would be able to relax in the face of adversity, and without any self pity or personal suffering.

Of course, we will keep our feelings intact –love is a feeling too–, and we would still be able to care and feel love and compassion for others, even though without any undue dramatism.

Continues…

Robert Adams was an American Self-realized master, and he was said to be a direct disciple of the renowned Indian spiritual master and sage, Ramana Maharshi. This was because he travelled to India where he met Ramana in person, and he remained there with Ramana for the last three years of Ramana’s life. 

Is what this quote saying to us really true at all levels though? Why do we need to try to improve and consciously grow ourselves in any way then, or even endeavour to get a job, or to do anything at all for that matter, if this is truly so? Why would I even want to try to help anyone, if their situation is always perfect for them, and for all other souls, at all times?

At the level of love, all is perfection

It is lack of love that sees you living from fear, and so supposing that imperfection exists.

This fear has been isolated out from this love, and it is this fear which is often then being wrongly mislabelled as being a state of imperfection, or perhaps as only just indicating the existence of imperfection by many people, but the truth is that even this fear is merely just another part of love that you are getting to know consciously.

This is the spiritual journey, moving from unconscious knowing to conscious knowing.

All is always perfectly unfolding exactly just as it must, because it unfolds from perfection into a greater perfection. This means, that like a tree, all that you ever need to do is to go with your own growth, loving it and never fearing it, for it to be optimally felt as being right for you, and so that you then will be always perfectly happy with what’s happening, and about the way that it’s all unfolding as you for you, within God.

What is this ongoing growing type of perfection in relation to an individual soul’s existence as compared to the overall always existing ongoing perfection of God’s oneness?

God’s oneness of perfection also contains a state of non perfection within it, because non perfection could be said to be the state of unconscious perfection, that is the state existing before it becomes more consciously aware of itself. All is perfect, unconsciously so, but the spiritual journey is created for each soul to help it to bring perfection to consciousness, or to the awareness of all of God’s infinite parts. This means then that imperfection could be said to be only ever just a lack of the sufficient conscious development that is required for you to see this underlying unconscious perfection, perfectly, and so fully consciously. You are just not seeing unconscious perfection perfectly consciously as yet.

Perfection is the continuing state of all things. The things themselves can not yet see this consciously, because they do not yet see the whole picture perfectly consciously all at once, that is at the beginning of their spiritual journey. Perfection seems relative to them then, as it seems to be moving, and so it sometimes might seem impossible for themselves to be able to achieve, but the truth is that there is nothing extra to achieve. All is always perfect, and working exactly as it must be under these perfect laws, and it could never work all together connectively perfect like this in any other way.

Perfection is an inbuilt requirement of creation for it to be even existing

Consciousness is created as a mirror, or a field that surrounds activated love. Consciousness is created in a part of God that loves.

When love is allowed to uninterruptedly flow though our own part of God, and which is a part of our freedom of God given choice, consciousness arises in and around us not unlike how a magnetic field arises around electricity moving through a wire. The stronger the un-resisted current is, the stronger is the magnetic field. The stronger the flow of love is allowed to be,the more we can grow our aware consciousness, and consciousness then builds on consciousness, until we eventually reach God consciousness, or full conscious knowing of how and why we are living as ourselves for God within God. All works together anyway, but now we consciously become a willing participant, instead of an unconscious one.

All the spiritual journey is about then is for us the parts of God to become conscious of our own part within God. We achieve this by loving God, by loving ourselves, and by loving all of the other parts of God, just as much as we presently can. The more that we consciously love in this way, the stronger becomes our mirror of consciousness. Eventually we become a full conscious functioning part of God, serving him from conscious knowing choice rather than from just unconscious re-activeness to his direction. God is perfect at all times, we are just becoming conscious of how he is perfect in our part of God, being us, when we are consciously being him within him.

This is why the master Jesus told us to love God with all of our mind, body and soul, and to love our neighbour as ourselves. He then went on to tell us that when we love in this way, all else is added back to us then. We always had all else of course already, but now it becomes all consciously known to us as well.

This is how Saint Matthew’s gospel worded Jesus’s command to us about this.

This is to be found at chapter 22, verses 36 to 40, within the Christian bible. Someone had just asked Jesus this question, and his answer then follows.

“Master, which is the great commandment in the law?”
 
Jesus said unto him, ” Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law, and the prophets.”

Earlier in Saint Matthew’s gospel is this verse. It’s from chapter 6, and verse 33.

“But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

In my article above, I have equated the meaning of this bible reading to seeking the way of love first, because in my mind God is love, and love is God, and his kingdom is really us living from this love within him.

I WANT TO ACT LIKE A CHILD

I don’t want to be grown up today. I am sick and tired of having to put on a front that makes people think that I am always in control. Please understand that I am not in control of anything! The more I think that I have control over people places and things, the more stressed I become. I have a good job but to be honest with you, it is a crock of nonsense. Of course I am grateful for what I have but I wish I could turn it off a bit more often and not have to worry about it. I don’t listen to people who tell me to “Let Go” because I can’t let go. I have responsibilities and people are depending on me to do things. If I fail them, I am going to end up in the dumps. Looks like my lot is to work by the sweat my brow for the rest of my days. 

What people are saying in the media concerning my industry bears no relationship to what they actually do in practice. People don’t care about all the issues they are fighting about. No! They just want to have a secure future which means they need to make more money – which means that they dare not be themselves. Being yourself can get you into trouble if you are doing it in front of the wrong crowd. This means that a lot of what goes on is not actually “going on” – Don’t you know that people are scheming and designing ways to take our eyes away from focusing on what is actually there? 

AFRAID TO BE YOURSELF

Of course you should be afraid to be yourself now and then. It could be considered to be a healthy fear. If you can’t be yourself most of the time, then when can you be yourself? Maybe your true self is too much to take for most people in society? What the hell do you want out of life anyway? Please don’t tell me that you have it all figured out because I won’t believe you for a minute!

GIMME A BREAK!

Once in a while I need a break from society. I get very tired of all the small talk and time that is wasted running around in circles. Why can’t everyone just be straight to the point? The most annoying people I find are those that never have anything negative to say about anything. Come on folks! There are a lot of negative things going on in life. Some people are pissed and they need some empathy and a listening ear. Don’t always judge them and tell them that they need to straighten out their way of thinking. Some things are crooked my friends and it is not right for us to stop people telling us what they see.  Your positive thinking does not always help because I see that you are simply burying your head in the sand.

DO YOU WANT TO BE YOURSELF WITH ME?

Hey, I am by no means perfect but I can give it my best shot. Why don’t you tell me about some of your weaknesses and maybe I will tell you some of mine. I am not asking you to blog about them but simply telling you that if I met you in person it might help me a bit to know that you are also human. There are too many super heroes on the television and I get sick to death hearing stories about how we are going to succeed. Why can’t we discuss how we are going to fail .. LOL! It’s those weaknesses, those doubts, the insecurity we hide that makes us human but why are we not allowed to share them with everyone? I guess a lot of grown ups won’t accept it because we are so perfect, aren’t we?

PERFECTION IN IMPERFECTION

I don’t want you to be perfect my friend. I want you to let your hair down sometimes because it is getting too stuffy in here for my liking. Hey! I am not talking about Triond but situations I often face in life. It is so tiring having to spend time with a bunch of perfect people. Why not look for the imperfection? Maybe imperfection is not imperfection but simply something a bit more natural. 

1. They can’t be you.

2. They envy something of/anything about you.

3. They can’t get/have what you get/have.

4. They think your life is better than theirs.

5. They can’t do what you do even if they try.

6. They can’t make you do what they want you to do.

7. They aren’t noticed as much as you do.

8. You have what they can never have.

9. You’re better than them.

It might be that you’re in a better place/situation in life than they are. Or you look awesome even if it seems you’re not doing much. Or you usually come out better than the rest even if you don’t want to.

10. You don’t notice them or pay attention to them without meaning to.

11. They feel undervalued even if they shouldn’t.

12. You hurt their feelings.

It doesn’t matter if you did it intentionally or not, they will still hate you anyway. 

13. They don’t understand you.

It may be that they’re afraid of you or simply idolize you or maybe even love you a certain way but since it’s not reciprocated the way they want it, it turns into something else entirely. That’s why they ruin you, irritate you or do all the nasty stuff to you. It’s either that or they think you’re pathetic. Either way hate is still kind of a strong word.

People hating on you isn’t something to be proud of. You don’t boast how much someone hates you just because you’re who you are. But of course that might be a defense mechanism.

So what have we learned from this list then? Should you change yourself for them to please them? Nothing can really please people nowadays aside from making them feel good.

Hate is a strong enough word. It is unpleasant. It is uncomfortable. It makes you wanna kill someone.

Why would you wanna hate someone? Is it because you feel insignificant? Stupid? Unloved? Wronged?

What exactly is your problem that it made you hate someone? Is it because you got hurt? Why did it hurt?

You do know that nobody’s perfect right? But everyone strives to be perfect to the detriment of others, which shouldn’t be the case. Heck i don’t even care about my grammar, using a foreign language is enough as long as i get the point across and am understood.

So what can i say about this? Well why don’t we all start doing what is right instead of hating people and putting them down just because we hate them. After all if it weren’t for them, you wouldn’t be where you are now. You may be bitter and still seek revenge but revenge is empty, as we have all witnessed in movies, TV shows, anime and the like. It only feels good at the beginning but then it makes you feel more rotten inside without you even noticing it.

Doing the right thing might be hard but it’s better. Use your hatred to make life better for you and everyone else without deliberately stepping on other people. You’re just going to make things worse than it is if you do. Learn from your pain. Use your pain and the hate that results from it to learn about who you are and how people react to you and turn things into something positive. Hate and pain will consume you if you let it, so don’t let it keep you from having a happy and positive life.

Pray. Laugh. Love. Live.

Enjoy life to the fullest and make the world a much better place for everyone. =)

Perfection is rigid, excellence gives leeway.  When something is done perfect, if there really is such a thing, it means there is no other that can best your performance.  Bobby Fisher comes to mind in this instance because they use to say he gave a perfect chess game. 

Excellence is more fluid.  My best today may not be the same as my best tomorrow.  Some days you just can’t get the words right or you can’t express yourself enough to make others understand.  Those are the days your excellent moment is when you don’t crush your coffee into the steering wheel trying to avoid that obfuscated vehicle coming into your lane.  Other excellent days are when you catch all the green lights. 

Striving for the best within oneself requires effort that will seem to others like perfection.  Some say repeating the action will gain results.  But those who make their excellence seem like perfection have something more than just repetition.  There is a drive, a need or a fire that makes them want more.  That’s not to say you’re looking for perfection, but rather looking for your excellence.  When they are asked what makes them want to go on, they have an answer.  Whether that answer is not being content with what they can do or something more profound doesn’t actually matter. 

How do you react when you know you’ve given everything you’ve had but still lost?  How do you feel when your opponent says, “Nice try.”  If you’re looking back at what you could have done better, that’s the attitude of perfection.  If you answer back, “Thank you” because you know there is nothing more you could have done, that’s the attitude of excellence.  Excellence knows the best within your self is not to be compared with the best within another.  Yet others will bring out a higher level of excellence in you not because you have to match them, but because they show you it’s possible. 

 Striving implies there is a goal.  To be the best within oneself implies you know yourself enough to know your limits.  But excellence and perfection require you to go beyond your limits.  Excellence means superiority.  Perfection is flawless.  Don’t mix the two when you reach to attain your personal best.  It doesn’t belong to another person and no one else will be able to tell you what that is.  But you can always tell yourself, “Nice try” and test your answer.  Your best may not be perfect but that’s alright because it was probably excellent.   

Striving to be more than Perfect 

When one reaches “Perfect” they can only strive to be more than perfect or to become imperfect, well, logically anyway… or there is the potential that one would want to become a different shade of perfect, but would that be possible ?

Negativity from outside Factor’s is good in small bursts 

If everything you do eventually falls victim of constant praise then you are in for a tough run, see when the average person gets both positive and negative “vibes” this helps them to obviously balance out there mind which in turn helps them balance out their whole world that’s in-front of them. If you were constantly praised you would probably push to earn more praise which would probably end up in oneself find their way into a morgue due to suicide.

Where is the room for improvement 

If your constantly getting everything right you must have some sort of perception issue or disorder, if this isn’t the case your likely to get one very soon when you have a sudden realisation that there is no room for improvement;  its the point where you being to invent room for improvement that tends to worry those looking into your world from the outside.

Do you need some negativity in your life

Yes you do and if your not getting enough then I’m sure it could be easily solved by asking any person in the street to smash you in the face out of sheer jealousy so you would have to deal with the regeneration of your perfect facial figure (that may never return).

Why do we want to be perfect 

I could provide you with a scientific reason for all of you closed minded people but the reality is that I’m not closed minded and I’m happy to express myself.

We want to be perfect because we want the impossible.

Many of us turn to belief to understand the impossible, some of us attempt to abuse this belief by praying (of course for the wrong things as prayer for its intended use can be extremely useful when expressing what you truly feel) but when something such as a perfect figure is put with in our potential grasp by things such as science that’s when we flail our arms in an attempt to get a firm grasp of it. I’m sure that if a Private Health clinic provided the reason to why the universe is here then we’d have an epidemic of “truth-o-rexia” and rehabilitation center’s would be full of people of every age who believed they could understand the un-understandable with out harming themselves.

On marriage, Socrates once said, “If you get a good wife, you will become very happy. But if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher.” Same sentiments were displayed by a poet of India, Maithli Sharan Gupta, “Viyogi hoga pahala kavi”. meaning, the separated will be the first poet. Thus marriage may make you happy if you succeed or a peculiar person if you feel. It is never a bad bargain. But I wish, you succeed with flying colors. Here are some flowers picked from the tree of my experience of love.

Health

Health is the key to all happiness of life and this becomes even more important for keeping a healthy relationship. No spouse likes to take the partner to a medico for check ups and treatments. Health has a close reciprocity with happiness – happiness provides health and vice-versa. Taking care of own health is primary but taking care of the spouse’s health is never secondary. Take care of it. 

Listen

Key to a successful married life is listening more, talking less, to be followed by both – husband and wife. This does not mean that they should be sitting quiet when in each other’s company, but caring for the other more than the selves. Touches add life to marriage, exhilarating each other and opening a dialog for the greatest pleasure of marriage – sex-play.

Love

Love is a process not a destination, therefore it must never stop. It is often the greatest mistake to take the partner’s love for granted. Keep on refreshing your love to your partner through touches, sweet words, care and share, and doing your best to please the partner. 

Sex

A sex-play is a game of learning about each other’s physiology through discovering rather than asking. Aha, I remember, once I asked my beloved what she wanted, came her apt reply, “Discover by yourself”. Yes, discovering each other’s constitution, pleasure points, desires at different levels of the play, and ultimately satiating each other, make the married life the greatest boon. It is an art, not a science, to see that the partner is satisfied. In the game, never bother for the gratification of the self but that of the partner. You Will surely be gratified.  

Humor

A sense of humor adds health to socializing, similarly to the married life. It is not only that laughter is essential for a happy married out, but ‘laughing out’ minor irritants in between is also important at that moment of prospective tension, to be analyzed and eliminated later. Humor is not a subject to be studied from books or in institutions, but something to be discovered in every instance of routine life. ‘Laughing on’ and ‘laughing at’ have a very thin demarcation line to be understood by both very minutely, to avoid ‘laughing at’ at every cost and resort to ‘laughing on’ at every possible moment.  

Perfection

Perfection in a relationship and that in a personality are always desirable, but can’t be made targets, as there is nothing perfect. So do not expect perfection in your partner, but seek perfection in his/her imperfections through being selective, as you do while picking flowers from a rose plant. You leave the thorns there untouched. Secondly, perfection is not to be sought in the partner, but it is to be provided to him/her with the best possible intentions and efforts. 

Speak out

A minor aberration living for long in the body becomes a dangerous ailment if not removed in time. So is true for bad feelings about each other in a relationship. If one has some doubt, it must be talked out at the earliest. In most of the cases, it comes out to be a misunderstanding, and in others, it get eliminated very easily at its inception stage. 

Love or Leave

Enjoy every moment of your love life by looking for positive aspects of your partner, and ignoring the negative ones.It is difficult when either the partner is really very bad, or you don’t deserve. A disharmony comes to be known to both within a year of marriage, and if it is so, dissociate yourself from the relationship not to spoil lives of the two and the off-springs you produce through a disharmonious married life.  

So, friends, treat your wife/husband as a beloved/lover always up to the last moment of your life, to keep your love life afresh, always, all ways.

                                                                      Chapter 1

Miranda Kirkpatrick was perfect. She was tall and beautiful with eyes that changed color with her moods. From thoughtful green, emotional blue, straight to logical grey. Her long brown hair flowed around her shoulders; flashing copper in the light, giving proof to her Irish roots. Skin as pale and as smooth as ivory had never been marked by a blemish or acne. Not even the customary Irish freckles filled her face. With perfect 20/20 vision and the health of a horse, Miranda was one hundred percent physical perfection.

 This is not where she halted in her perfection. Mentally, she was also unbelievably more valuable. A prodigy since a young age, Miranda’s academics had exceeded every person she had come across. Her I.Q. was literally in the genius range. Every class was passed with no less than an A+ and every project was completed almost before it started. With photographic memories that never left her brain, she was one of the rare forms of people that could count down every second of her life. Miranda’s mind was untouchable.

 Of course, with a perfect body and unequaled mind, Miranda’s life also came with the most perfect of families. A father who, despite running a massive law firm, had made it to every t-ball practice and soccer game of Miranda’s growing years. He had always made sure to tell her that she was his world. Her mother, too, was always supportive and trusting of her daughter. Though she had boundaries, they were not the types of boundaries Miranda had not made on her own. The rules of the house were respected by her and, in turn, she earned the respect of her parents.

 However perfect Miranda was, however, it could not but be assumed that there is always a flaw. With Miranda, it was hormones. With genius and good looks, Miranda could have any guy that she wanted. And she got whomever she desired all through her teenage years. Many, however, were put off by her perfection; and poor Miranda had to suffer through heartbreak. After her last boyfriend was sufficiently intimidated away from her, a seventeen year old Miranda swore off men. For good.

 After all that she was blessed with, it was still hard for Miranda to want more than to be an average girl. Normal. She never skipped grades in school. Didn’t graduate early. College could wait until she was eighteen. And she had no plans for her future because it was coming way too fast.

 But you can’t hide perfection. Especially from those who scour the world for it.

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The class was preparing for an upcoming test. Mr. Hazel would put a multiple choice question on the overhead. He told students, if they knew the answer, to stand up . The students were so engaged, so excited, that they couldn’t sit still. I never saw so much popping since Orville Redenbacher in my microwave!

They were not only giving the right answer, they were explaining why it was right. They were also explaining why the other three were not! Mr. Hazel made sure each student knew how proud he was of them, and what a wonderful job they were doing. If they were a little off with their answers, he carefully and gently  nudged them back on track

I am 64 and  have been teaching for most of my life. I had never seen a class where every student was totally engaged until that day. They wanted to give the answers! They knew the answers! And they knew it was just as important to know why an answer was wrong as it was snow itwas right!

This man, John Hazel, obviously loved what he was doing. He genuinely cared about his students and they knew it! His approval was their greatest reward.  It was obvious his students held him in very high esteem and had great respect for him. 

He encouraged his students to ask questions. His insightful answers were designed to encourage learning. His students were learning! Far more important, they wanted to learn They had value in his eyes and it was important to them to do everything possible to keep his respect.

When that class was over and all the students had left, the next class entered – respectfully. As they came in the door, their spirits picked up and their voices drops down. Mr. Hazel went about the business of the day and then introduced me. He told his students what he expected and they worked at fulfilling his high expectations.

I got the strong impression that the students would do anything for Mr. Hazell because their respect for him was so high! It was fascinating for me. I’ve never been in front of a  classroom before where there wasn’t at least one sleepyhead or a couple people whispering or one person off his or her own little world. These students were all very attentive.

I do not know Mr. Hazel personally and only met him that one day. But what  I saw was so exceptional that I had to write about it. I would describe him as a man very sure of his expectations, not only for his students, but also for himself. He gave his students the confidence, not only to meet those expectations, but to want to give 100% to make it happen!

When I was studying to be a teacher, I was taught all the things teachers cannot or should not do. My first coworker filled every cannot and should not. By watching her, I learned the whys of what cannot or should not be done. It was a great learning experience for me.

And there was Mr. Hazel. He personified all the best things about teaching. That day I watched a man who truly, honestly cared about his students. I saw students that would, and did, do everything they could to be the best, because it was reciprocated

There’s an old saying: “Just because you are teacher, does not give you the right to be boring.” Boring doesn’t exist in his classroom. I know this because I found myself so drawn into their reviewing. I nearly jumped up with an answer!

Mr. Hazel, Please don’t change. You are much closer to being the perfect teacher than anyone I’ve ever met in all the years I’ve taught.

Thank you for allowing me to come to your class. You truly are  teacher perfection personified. 

* By the way, should you want to read more of my writings, please check out these two websites:

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