# Perfection > Perfection recognizes each moment as absolute manifestation of current idea before next expands in Bashar's teaching. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/perfection # Perfection *An asymmetrical repaired ceramic bowl holds gathered green fruit beside an unfinished matching bowl* Perfection, in Bashar's teaching, is not a future state to be attained but a present fact: at any given moment you are already the absolute perfect manifestation of whatever idea you are being. The spiritual path is therefore not the achievement of perfection but the recognition of it. Relaxing the pressure to "become more perfect" is precisely what allows the next, perhaps more expanded, perfect moment. ## You are already perfect The foundational reframing is that you will never achieve perfection because you are already perfect. This does not mean you will not grow, expand, change, or learn — it means that at each stage of growth you remain a perfect representation of that stage. Bashar likens it to infinity: there is one perfection, just as there is one infinity, and all the growth that takes place within it is still taking place within the perfection of all that is. Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is what you are. You will always grow. But everything you do is a perfect manifestation of the thing you are doing. Thus, everything you do is perfect.— Bashar, Forgetting (forgetting#qa-6) Because perfection is present rather than prospective, the work is not striving but recognition — what Bashar calls "the recognition, admission of that which you already are." The being who feels they must "make the grade" is unwilling to believe they already are the grade. ## Each moment is a stepping stone Every moment is a stepping stone to the next moment. When you invalidate or judge any moment, you shut off the very facets of that experience you need to see in order to take the next step — you remove from the path the ability to get to the next stepping stone. Allow each moment to be perfectly valid as it is, because allowing the present moment to be complete in and of itself is what paradoxically allows you to create the next, different perfect moment. This is why waiting for "better timing" before acting on what excites you is, in Bashar's language, an oxymoron. Timing is timing; perfect timing happens every moment. When you treat every moment as if what is happening in it is what needs to happen in that moment, you begin to experience every moment in its perfectly timed essence. ## Validity is not preference A common confusion is to hear "everything is perfect" as "you must accept everything." Bashar draws a clear line: you can always prefer your life to be the way you desire it to be. The way to allow yourself to create it that way, however, is to first accept that the way it is now serves a purpose and is part of the path you created for yourself. You can prefer perfect harmony and perfect ecstasy, or you can prefer perfect misery — both are perfect expressions of the idea you are reflecting at that moment. Once you accept that the present scenario is there for a reason, you can extract from it what will assist you in redirecting yourself toward what you prefer. Knowing all choices are equally perfect makes preference easier, not harder: you do not have to fight something more powerful than you, nor reach down for something less than you — all choices are on the same level, and choosing becomes simply a matter of preference. ## Good and evil are subjective value judgments Bashar treats the melodrama of "good versus evil" as a learned habit — a carry-over, often from storytelling, into physical life — rather than an objective feature of reality. Good and evil, right and wrong, are subjective value judgments, and the belief that you can have an opponent who can oppose you is the only reason any opposing group can interact with you. Remove the underlying belief and a being not of your vibration simply cannot find you, let alone touch you. Crucially, Bashar locates the causality in belief, not in events: a startling event is the effect of incorporating the melodramatic belief system, not the cause of it. The event is the result of the belief in the struggle between light and dark. Hope is treated in the same register. "Hope implies despair. Hope implies you are not sure. You either know or you don't." Knowing replaces hope, and the shift is from a state of waiting on the world to a state of trusting what you say you believe. When asked "what if this does not work?", Bashar's reply is direct: "What if implies less than 100% trust." To play "what if" is to deny you truly believe what you say you believe. ## Excitement versus expectation The same perfection of the present applies to following excitement. There is a difference between following what excites you and allowing that to become an expectation that it should manifest in a particular way. There are no shoulds. Once you put the energy of excitement out there, all the details take care of themselves; whatever details are there are the details that need to be there to represent the energy of your excitement — not function as a symbol of interruption. When a detail stands out that does not seem to fit, the impulse to treat it as an obstruction is the residue of believing every detail must be a certain way before what you feel needs to happen can happen. Integrity, in Bashar's definition, is not fixation on a single part — it is functioning as an integrated whole. A detail that stands out is there to aid and assist you, perhaps in a very unexpected way. Everything plays a part. Nothing is out of line. Nothing is in a situation for no reason. ## Practical implications Notice where you apply pressure. The felt sense of "I must become more perfect" is the very pressure that blocks the next perfect moment; relaxing it is the practice, not a reward for later. Stop waiting for the right moment. If you find yourself waiting for better timing, treat that as a cue to act on what excites you now; every moment is already perfectly timed. Separate acceptance from preference. Accepting that the present serves a purpose is not the same as preferring it; acceptance is the condition that lets you redirect toward what you prefer. Examine the melodrama. Where you experience opponents, struggle, or good-versus-evil framing, look first at the belief that you can be opposed; that belief is the door through which opposition enters. Drop "what if". Treating any hesitation as a question of 100% trust surfaces where you do not yet believe what you say you believe, without forcing you to suppress the doubt. Treat details as part of the excitement. When a detail obstructs what excites you, assume it is part of the exciting momentum rather than an interruption; this keeps integrity as an integrated whole rather than fixation on a part. ## Representative passages You will never achieve perfection because you are already perfect. The idea does not mean that you will not grow, not expand, not change, not transform, not learn something new. But it is simply an allowance, a recognition of allowance in your lives, that at any given moment, the idea you are being, the reality you are expressing, the events you are experiencing, are for their own reasons perfect in themselves.— Bashar, Perfection 01 [1987-02-12] (perfection-01-1987-02-12#text) Every moment is a stepping stone to the next moment. And if you invalidate any stepping stone, then you yourself remove from the path you are the ability to get to the next stepping stone.— Bashar, Perfection 01 [1987-02-12] (perfection-01-1987-02-12#text) Waiting for timing? That's an oxymoron. Timing is timing. You don't wait for it. It just happens at perfect timing. [...] When you treat every moment as if what is happening in that moment is what needs to happen in that moment in perfect timing, you will begin to experience every moment in its perfectly timed essence.— Bashar, Perfect Timing Happens Every Moment (perfect-timing-happens-every-moment#qa-2) That action is the result of the belief in the melodrama, in the belief of the good versus evil. That is melodrama, because good and evil are subjective value judgments.— Bashar, Perfection 02Good Bad Right Wrong (perfection-02good-bad-right-wrong#qa-3) All of the details will take care of themselves and whatever details are there are never going to be anything that will impede what truly excites you, truly motivates you.— Bashar, Perfection 06Perfection Of The Earth (perfection-06perfection-of-the-earth#qa-3) ## Related - [Self-Acceptance](https://sassani.app/topic/self-acceptance) - [Judgment](https://sassani.app/topic/judgment) - [Definitions & Beliefs](https://sassani.app/topic/definitions-and-beliefs) - [Unconditional Love](https://sassani.app/topic/unconditional-love) - [Empowerment](https://sassani.app/topic/empowerment) - [Excitement](https://sassani.app/topic/excitement) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/perfection. The HTML page is the source of truth.