"Perfection is defined by standards of the conquering people to the detriment of those conquered. If there is such a thing as perfection it isn't conducive to anybody's growth. Perfection creates, in a group setting, a collective awe, but if perfection is sought, as a group, fierce competition takes over spoiling the notion of perfection, and the feel of perfection is lost in a swirl of emotions ranging from pity to rage, and to hopelessness. Rules take precedence over the creative part of seeking perfection, growth is misinterpreted as advancement, and judgment becomes a permanent fixture in one’s mindset. Jaws are set, faces steel against the continuous tide of the need to be perfect. A person becomes the pursuit of perfection, and life takes on a different hue, and intensity from the loose abandonment of childhoods that played in the winds that brought change easily, and made friends with people who lived in other realms, other worlds.
The lives of people under the dichotomy of Western ideology, religion, and value systems would be deeper and purer if they sought wholeness, and simply sat upon the Earth, our Mother, and listened to her stories, and learned from the talking spirits, the animals, the birds, and insects the Western mind shuns, despises, and cannot see as part of the whole." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Pamela Ruedemann, the mystery of a woman
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