Many of us have a tendency to strive for perfection. A deep longing to be perfect runs through our lives. But what is the reality about reaching the perfect when we look close? Even the specialists who dedicate there whole life to perfecting a small area of experience struggle with reaching the perfect. If you listen closely then the more brilliant the performer the more acutely is the awareness of the multitude of mistakes. The funny thing is that seeing the specialist fail in the quest for perfection we still manage to beat ourselves for the mistakes we make in our daily life.

The amazing thing is that there exist such a thing as perfection for the top performers. And this level is reached when the striving for perfection ceases. When the athlete reaches the zone, the artist gets inspired, the scientist get his breakthrough it is nearly always closely connected to an experience of effortlessness. Not only does the performer no longer attribute much to whether he is performing perfectly even more stunning is that the very distinction between right and wrong, the basis of the idea of perfection, seems to disappear. The performer stands back with an experience of the present moment in which he effortless unfolds his potential.

The breath taking and paradoxical is that in that moment there is a feeling of perfection for the performer. But it is no longer linked to any outer measurement of right or wrong. Instead it is on the feeling level. It is an experience of fullness and completeness. The end of striving and the arrival of completion. It is a feeling of having attained.

Now the beautiful thing is that this experience of attainment, flow, inspiration or what ever word one would want to put on it is not something foreign for us. It is our very core. And when we let go of the judging of ourselves and our surroundings the present moment opens up to the experience of this completeness as our nature.

Knowing this it becomes clear that indeed our only job is to see that we indeed already are perfect. That no matter what situation we find ourselves in at our core we always have the possibility of the experience of this fullness. That we have to let go of wanting to be somewhere else and instead see that we already have attained. That there is nowhere to go and nothing to get. That the present moment holds the promise of all.