"Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people."

Next Quote

We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.

— Chogyam Trungpa