I like to think of myself as God, Himself, only far more popular with the young and non-religious types of women.

But that's obviously a problem, because it means that I'm comparing myself to God, which, itself, is an idea that falls short of perfection, making me less than perfect.

By not trying in any way to become someone better or have something more, I AM perfect. That's to say, I feel whole and fulfilled when I stop searching for "more" or "better", and the tendency to compare oneself to others, as you've alluded to, is one of the greatest factors that keep that search alive and growing.

I don't have to fulfill some image of perfection, because perfection in the physical doesn't exist, even though I'm the closest thing to it ;)

Rather, I can live a perfectly fulfilled life by fully engaging with what I am here and now and what lives in my heart in this moment. To be alive, truly alive, is to be so deep into, and enriched by, our senses that we literally FORGET we have ideas, thoughts and emotions; it's to drop the idea of "self", altogether, living so intensely focused on the here and now that the "happenings" "outside of the body" are experienced just as intimately as those "inside of the self".

The experience of "two becoming one", such as during very passionate and intimate (spiritual) sex, is the ultimate of sensations - it IS perfection. That's where a very present, free-being person lives, virtually all of the time. They're one with that which they sense/ perceive. They make no distinctions between "self" (subject) and "not self" (object). Therefore, they have no fears. Therefore, they are truly free and at peace.

I enjoyed your article. Up-voted and subscribed :)