"And you will never again be one because there is no end to your imagination. You can always imagine a better state of affairs. Wherever you are, you can always have your goal somewhere there on the horizon, and the horizon is never achieved.

"You remain unfulfilled – not because life makes it difficult for you to be fulfilled; life is all for your fulfillment. You remain unfulfilled because of your imagination. Life is ready to deliver all that you need, this very moment, but your idea of perfection becomes a barrier. Then you cannot love, then you cannot live, then you cannot sing, then you cannot dance. All celebration will disappear from your life; you will be pathological. And that's what has been taught by the so-called moralists and the so-called religious down the ages. For thousands of years man has been conditioned to be neurotic. Joy is when you accept yourself as you are. Joy is a function of immense acceptance.

"'Perfection' means you reject yourself. And remember, when you reject yourself you naturally reject others too. A perfectionist is hard upon himself and is hard upon others too. He cannot relax and he cannot allow anybody else to relax. Let-go is impossible for him, and he will condemn anybody who is living a relaxed life.

"These neurotics have created hell as a punishment for all those who are not perfectionists. Naturally, they suffer here, they suffer deeply. They only suffer, their life is a suffering. They have crucified themselves; now they cannot allow you to go on enjoying life. They say, 'Okay, you can enjoy for the moment. But remember, finally you will be thrown into eternal hell.' That is their joy, that you will have to suffer eternally. They are suffering only for the moment – sooner or later they will be free from this life and they will be in paradise, and they will enjoy all kinds of joys that they have never allowed themselves here. And you will be suffering in hell – and eternally, forever. That is a pathological mind. It is not capable of enjoying, and it is not capable of forgiving others for enjoying.

"Drop this word perfection, it is a dirty word, and it is one of the root causes of your misery."