You cannot become perfect because you already are. Everything is perfect.
Everything includes everybody, which includes you. Whatever happens is
perfect.
Come to understand that it is only your judgment and your expectation
placed upon your circumstances and the events that occur that make them
appear non-perfect. This appearance is only 'mind' having its own opinion
on the matter. The interpretations of your mind trigger your emotions
and now your ego is having a field day.
You don't view people, events and circumstances as perfect because
you do not understand their purpose. You don't understand what the respective
soul and its associated karma with the aid of mind and emotion have
come to experience. All people, events and circumstances come about
for the sole purpose to experience.
You don't understand and nor will you be able to understand your soul's
purpose let alone anybody else's. However you may come to appreciate
that you have a purpose - just like everybody else does. Occasionally
you might even get a glimpse of it.
As you develop as a master of the physical universe - life and how
to live it - you may even come to fully appreciate your purpose here
on earth and in the universe. You will begin to consciously direct your
purpose in the moment NOW. Conscious direction of purpose is achieving
ultimate perfection, meaning you fully understand your perfection.
Perfection is coming home - perfection is your true home.
The process of becoming perfect is stopping any other activity that
does not suit this purpose. Since all your activities are designed to
assist you in becoming perfect and experiencing that perfection, you
are perfection in the process of realising your perfection - no matter
how cumbersome you go about it.
This trilogy will help you smarten up.
This is perfect, that is perfect, perfect comes from perfect, take
perfect from perfect and the remainder is perfect.
(Old Sanskrit Idiom)

Contributed by: Mitakuye Oyasin Waynonaha and Lynn