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A student says fear of the unknown is what prevents a person from aspiring upward.
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Aspiration
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "That the fear of unknown stops you from aspiring to the higher. Yeah. Right. Good. Yeah. Don't be afraid."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "That the fear of unknown stops you from aspiring to the higher. Yeah. Right. Good. Yeah. Don't be afraid."
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A student answers that the soul's aspiration is to desire God, and Jiang sharpens this into the idea that humans fundamentally want to return to God because the part longs to rejoin the whole.
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Jiang says the soul is the part of us that desires to return to the whole, and that this return remains our deepest aspiration even when we are ignorant of it.
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"That the fear of unknown stops you from aspiring to the higher. Yeah. Right. Good. Yeah. Don't be afraid."
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"To return to God. Do you understand? It's like, I give you my finger, okay? And like, my finger is like, I would rather..."
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"No, that's the complete opposite of what I just said. Yes. None of them have souls. Okay. So God creates the universe. The universe..."
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"...some way supernatural outside nature she can't live up to that aspiration but it's she who as it were um starts the engine of..."
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"...alive like you know um his reputation and you know his aspirations to be crowned as the greatest poet did happen so that is..."
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"...put a part of himself in us, what is our greatest aspiration?"
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"...commitments to various objectives and the goodwill and their hopes and aspirations."
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"...security strategy, it's a tone of aggression. It's a tone of aspiration. And I mean, America is just sick and tired of this crap...."
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"...brought together these countries. But if the U.S. would end its aspirations to restore hegemony and they would no longer require this collective balancing,..."
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"...His Majesty's government the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the cabinet. His Majesty's..."
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"...field of the cat. She's seeing the memory. She's seeing the aspirations. She's seeing the intuition, the imagination of the cat and embedding it..."
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