Do you look at your own errors, and learn from your experiences? What's the point, why even bother with this person whose faults can be learned through seeing all their mistakes?
Some look upon an ideal which may be even harder yet, as one has to become humble and live with humility. Now some will say as long as we're pointing and discussing the different pointers we're not experiencing, and in this manner praise God! But in this way we're experiencing something greater that we can't necessarily discuss and disagree or they would not be ideal.
We've heard it said that when one points to a star, don't focus on their finger or all the star's heavenly glory will be lost. Have you seen the star leading away from one's self towards Jesus? Are they pointing to an ideal -- the light of realization?
There's a story about a star in which men were lead to Jesus