Then, I wanted to say it is nice to watch your thinking on “perfection” evolve…lovely, actually.

And, for the record, you are perfect.

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This is an excellent observation. It reminds me of something that was pointed out to me recently in a Baha’i quote that was very inspiring. Since it is in a similar vein as your post, I would like to share it with you:

“The more one is severed from the world, from desires, from human affairs, and conditions, the more impervious does one become to the tests of God. Tests are a means by which a soul is measured as to its fitness, and proven out by its own acts. God knows its fitness beforehand, and also its unpreparedness, but man, with an ego, would not believe himself unfit unless proof were given him. Consequently his susceptibility to evil is proven to him when he falls into the tests, and the tests are continued until the soul realizes its own unfitness, then remorse and regret tend to root out the weakness.
“The same test comes again in greater degree, until it is shown that a former weakness has become a strength, and the power to overcome evil has been established.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Star of the West, vol. VI, no. 6 p. 45 (from “Utterances of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in answer to questions asked by Dr. Edward C. Getsinger during a few brief meetings in Haifa, Syria, January 26 to February 5, 1915 and recorded by Dr. Getsinger at the time.”)

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