Is Personal Perfection Possible?

“Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth
who continually does good and who never sins”
~ Ecclesiastes 7:20

“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That’s how the light gets in.”
~ Leonard Cohen

“This is the very perfection of a man,
to find out his own imperfections.”
~ Saint Augustine

“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.”
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection.”
~  Kahlil Gibran

“All is perfection,

but nobody’s perfect.”

~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

Q. Is personal perfection possible?

A. As the Yom Kippur liturgy aptly observes:

“There are none on Earth so righteous that they never sin.”

Incarnation involves limitation – and fallibility.

We’re here to learn and to evolve,
and evolution toward ‘perfection’ implies imperfection.

So, a perfect person’s not possible.