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Chilli

The name Chilli inspires intenseness, perfectionism and reliability.

Many people spend their lives striving for perfection – perfection in the way they look, where they work, and their relationships. If they’re on a spiritual path, they might even aim for perfection in their daily meditation practice.

The good news is: we are all already perfect in every way. The not-so-good news is that we’ve forgotten this and, as a result, many of us spend our whole lives in that pursuit of perfection, and therefore we often suffer unnecessarily. How many times have you agonized over whether you’re having too many thoughts in meditation, if your yoga pose is as good as it could be, or what needs to change in your diet?

Perfection is as elusive as silence. You can never quite reach perfection; and just when you think you’ve achieved it, something shifts, and it’s lost. It’s difficult to even describe true perfection. How can you put into words something that’s impossible even to imagine? Instead, many people waste their time focusing on what it isn’t.

The ancient wisdom of the Vedas tells us that the whole world is a projection of the mind. As Deepak Chopra says, “it’s not the Universe, it’s your Universe.”

The mind is quite limited; it’s full of expectations, judgments, doubts, and attachments. So how can something as imperfect as the mind, project something perfect? It can’t. To find perfection, you need to venture beyond the mind. Perfection is not a thought; it’s more of a state of awareness. When you stop trying to find it, perfection will show up at your side.

You have two choices in your search for perfection: you can continue to try to fix the imperfect, or you can step out of imperfection and into the unbounded freedom of perfection itself – to let go and be free of the impossible pursuit.

Perfection Isn’t in Things
Perfection is in the silent spaces between things – the spaces between our thoughts, our breaths, or the stillness of a yoga pose. When you begin to recognize the spaces, you’ll recognize the perfection. Make space and time in your life for the perfection to shine through. Pause every once in awhile, look at your life, and begin to recognize the perfection that’s already there.