Jiang's criterion for faith once rigid doctrinal consistency is stripped away.
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connection to the divine
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"...works. Okay. Faith can be changed. What matters is your connection to the divine. Does that make sense, guys? All right. So again, Donnie..."
"...language, images appear before you subconsciously and it excites your connection to the divine. Okay, alright, so let's keep on going."
"...we should discuss more is the mathematics the numerology of the Divine Comedy okay so there are three sections the first section is 34..."
"...to make it simple, okay? Your intuition is ultimately... your connection to the divine, to the universe, okay? Because, like, where does your intuition..."
"Beauty is the divine, okay? Beauty is connection to the divine. Beauty is a glimpse into the divine. Beauty are the sparks that are..."
"...actually has an imagination. He actually, you know, has a connection to the divine, perhaps. He thinks he does, yeah. And he probably does...."
"...Diction or metaphor. Enchanted cord. Enchanted cord is just your connection to the divine, okay? So this word, because it's so beautiful, this sentence..."
"...we humans are first and foremost imaginative. We have that connection to the divine, right? So in any crisis, what the first thing we..."
"...that's not who we are, okay? Once you lose that connection to the divine, then you can only get lost. So, if you deny..."
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