Parisse Deza: On Perfectionism, the Fulfillment of the Divine Through us

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By Parisse Deza, Contributing Writer
Submitted on October 7, 2025

On Perfectionism, The Fulfillment of the Divine Through Us
   -Perfect, Perfect, Perfect, and Tell Your Detractors To Jump in the Lake

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark. 
                      –Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

During Michelangelo’s four-year process of painting the Sistine ceiling, a badgering Pope Julius relentlessly demanded completion. What he didn’t understand was that Michelangelo was focused on perfection first.

J: When will you be done!

M: When it satisfies me as an artist.

Pope notwithstanding, Michelangelo completed the work on his own terms, a persistence that allowed him to realize his artistic vision without compromise. 

When things attempt to interfere with one’s creative process, the perfectionist takes no prisoners.

Michelangelo was a consummate perfectionist. Without that quality, so often met with derision by lesser-thinking human beings, we would have been deprived of not only his glorious ceiling, but of everything else he made, including his astonishing David, seventeen feet of splendor in stone, his head so high above our eyes that it had to be proportioned larger than life so it read consistently with the rest of the body.

For someone focused on fulfillment, there is nothing less than aiming for perfection.

Per-fect, from the Latin per – meaning through or thoroughly, and fect from facere – to make.

To make something through to its finest conclusion, refusing to compromise for any reason internal or external, brings an exquisite peacefulness so necessary to our being. Our efforts toward perfection are what draws pure Source into us. It wants us to perfect, for in perfecting it fulfills its purpose in having created us. We are its avatars in space-time through which it knows experience.

But aren’t perfectionists neurotic; its people just obsessive?

“You’re a stickler!”

“You’re too particular!”

“Are you ever satisfied?”

The fact is: We innately know when something is really finished because of the feeling of rightness it produces. And when we don’t go all the way we betray something precious inside us.

And there is no greater exemplar of perfectionism than Fred Astaire, who never failed to go all the way.

“It’s no secret. We hate him. He gives us complexes because he’s too perfect.” 
                                      -Mikhail Baryshnikov

Ginger Rodgers had to suspend all other activities when she made a movie with Fred, they spent so much time perfecting their dancing.

Fred would wear out multiple pairs of shoes per movie from rehearsing so much.

Who cares about shoes or anything else, when fluidity and grace like this are the result?

I, myself, am never satisfied with anything I do unless I have brought it all the way through its natural process to that sense of rightness and personal satisfaction that tells me I am done. I don’t feel peace until then.

It’s kind of like having done a great workout; you’re exhausted in a most pleasant way.

This is not because I’m a task master exerting discipline (which is a form of self-hatred) to make myself better. I do it because I love the creative process, persistently refining what I’ve written to find better, more accurate words, more beautiful metaphors, clearer ways to express my thoughts and feelings in the fewest possible words.

“Clarity and Concision” – the foundation of any art form.

“Patience and Persistence” – the heart and soul of any great work.

“Vision and Love” – the central factors that makes it all possible.

You can be good at something without being a perfectionist. But you’ll never be great unless you are one.

What Is More Important, the Journey or the End?

There is a new age platitude:

The journey is more important than the destination.

Michelangelo would have laughed at this statement. He liked his finished work.

If that were a truism, then endless process would be better than having any completion, a serene plateau one rests on in appreciation of what one has done; where one integrates what has been experienced, gathering energy for one’s next project into space-time.

The fact is, a beginning, a middle, and an end are all necessary stages of experience. If you focus on the journey without focusing on the end, you will never get where you want to go.

Life is by nature intentional.

The Big Glitch

So what is it in us that would distort the natural urge to perfect what we do into thinking that it is we who need to be perfected instead?

Why We Do This To Ourselves

The confusion comes from our foundational unresolved psychological issue: that we are not good enough and therefore do not deserve to be loved. From this we have developed the false image idea of ‘being perfect.’

Something happens, and the child thinks, “There must be something wrong with me. I won’t be loved unless I’m perfect.” A delusional idea is formed from a gargantuan misunderstanding made in pain.

We are innately perfect as we are born, just being ourselves, but we can know this only when we do not judge and condemn ourselves, which we are taught to do immediately after birth.

This distortion sets up a tragic series of human events for stages following. By young adulthood, we are feeling really bad about ourselves. “I’m not good enough the way I am” causes us to invent all sorts of cover-ups and t------s to try to make ourselves “perfect.”

For men, it’s often muscle development, money-making, and disguising our feelings to look strong. For women, it’s health-wrecking things like high-heeled shoes, or make-up that disguises their natural looks, or having children and over-giving in order to feel they are lovable.

All this is self-punishment rather than self-love – ego in pursuit of approval. We listen to the wrong voice. The art of perfecting heals us because then we are operating from our soul in communion with the Divine. We are not thinking about ourselves; we are thinking about what we are making. It’s not about us.

Needing to be perfect is not the same as knowing our innate perfection and wanting to create reflections of that in beautiful, inspiring, and nurturing works of any kind, not just in traditional forms, and in simply living a beautiful life.

Other Ways We’ve Done It To Ourselves

It is the misdirection of ego that prompts us to mislabel the natural drive to perfect “perfectionism” in a derogatory way. A “perfectionist” is looked at as an ogre who demands the impossible. Is this what we would call Nicola Tesla for having created a literally perfect energy system, totally harmless, almost free, completely pollutionless, and incapable of being exhausted?

Perhaps our lack of self-worth is what led to his system being kept from us. If we had enabled it in our society our world would be free of the pollution caused by fossil fuels and the aberrated way we still use electricity and radiation. These evils reflect an unconscious self-destruct inside us.

Umpires, referees, editors, building inspectors, teachers, and numerous other positions created to uphold high standards would all be eliminated from society if we didn’t on some deep level know that we need to keep ourselves aimed high so we do our best and have the most fulfillment. There is an innate weakness in the human ego which makes it easy to be lax and to compromise what’s best for us. We see this in innumerable examples in our society, many of which are involved in our languaging.

The misuse of language instills evil in the soul.
  -Socrates

Do you know why in everyday conversation so many of us use the term “there’s” when it is grammatically correct to say “there are”?

Because its easier for our mouths to say there’s than it is to say there are!

Barbarizing our language, down-scaling our communication, expressing in ways that are not technically correct but are socially accepted because we become lazy dehances culture and lowers our level of fulfillment. Society loses its elegance whenever we compromise our integrity. Those who most value themselves refrain from doing that.

What We Are Created To Do

We are capable of bringing something to its highest possible level of perfection by going to its furthest limits, and then transcending ourselves by going further and further until we reach a place past anywhere we’ve ever been before.

The soul knows how to do this; but not the ego. The ego will neurotically force and push ahead to accomplish its agenda, often destroying the product and ourselves in the process.

But the soul, with the heart in command will use love, sensitivity, and flow. River-soft and relaxed, it is virtually unstoppable and capable of great accomplishments.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.  
                   -Tom Robbins

In using flow power instead of push power we actualize our innate Self, our essential, magical being. We feel best about ourselves when we do our best. We manifest our innate wholeness when we strive to emulate the Divine in whatever we do, and in doing this the Divine is fulfilled through us.

And that is the real purpose of Creation. We really are supposed to go where no one has gone before.

I couldn’t give you something mediocre, even if that’s what you asked for.
                       – Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Be a Perfectionist.

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Metaphysician, teacher, writer, multidisciplinary artist, mentor, contemporary Renaissance man, PhD in Consciousness and Creativity. Birthing the new paradigm of America’s original vision of freedom in relationship with all Life.

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