Conrad, I like your notion of accepting imperfections. The Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki once said to his students, "Each one of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement."
On another note, this link has another thought by Osho in which he distinguishes between totality and perfection:
http://tow.charityfocus.org/index.php?tid=269
On Dec 5, 2006 viral wrote :