The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide To Personal Freedom

The main premise of the book has some serious flaws around it which is why I'm giving it two stars. Miguel keeps restating that people should see themselves as perfect and complete. He gives an example where he himself is perfect, but needs to be healthier. The idea of seeing yourself as perfect is to allow yourself to unconditionally love yourself, because you're already perfect.

The issue I have here is that this is delusional. No one is perfect, and the book should be teaching to love yourself DESPITE imperfections. How can someone be perfect if they need to be more healthy as his own case?

A perfect person, thing, or being is one that does not need improvement. If people listen to his guidance literally, then people would stop thinking about how to better themselves, as perfection has been reached already.

While you may think this is a technicality, it isn't. The wrong message will still get imprinted on people. An honest message is to teach people to love themselves despite being imperfect, but maybe that's more difficult to write about.