I guess the theme today is unity versus separation.

While standing under the cherry tree this morning in the rain, I wondered how to reconcile two apparent opposites:

"Right at this moment I am as I am supposed to be. If I were supposed to be anything else, I would be. Yet the person I see in the mirror is not perfect." VERSUS "I already am perfection."

How is it possible to be perfect and imperfect at the same time? Maybe the flaws or imperfections I see in the mirror are not flaws at all. Maybe they are just ideas that my mind and our humanity has manufactured. Like standing perfectly under a tree, then putting on a cloak that disguises that perfection, and then believing that the cloak is the reality and crying that I am imperfect. Maybe all I need to do to see the perfection is to remove the cloak.

I wonder how?  Just thinking.