Life is beautifully imperfect. We can best design the life our peaceful hearts desire when we love how imperfect we and those we love are.
In the words of the legendary Talib Kweli, a true prophet, and lover of people:
"What's real.....people lie, people kneel, people die, people heal, people steal, and people shed tears. where do we go for inspiration....what do we say, what do we do....no where to run, no where to turn, and it's nothing new. it's like pain is our only inspiration, wake up mistakes up, everybody wants the cake up to break up with the crew...."
We don't need pain to learn, but when we are so hard on love, and on ourselves,
that we expect any form of perfection, we manifest constant pain.
IMPERFECTION is BEAUTIFUL.