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Only through pain and suffering can humans achieve their full potential, because pain focuses the mind and gives meaning to goodness.
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Goodness
Only through pain and suffering can humans achieve their full potential, because pain focuses the mind and gives meaning to goodness.
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Love your enemy matters because evil people create opportunities for goodness and because God sends sun and rain to both righteous and unrighteous.
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Jiang says after death people will not remember money or worldly details; what remains is the amount of goodness or evil they did.
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Zoroastrianism makes goodness an internal moral obligation, unlike systems Jiang associates with achievement, status, or luck.
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"So even though, yeah, the question then is like, if this world is one of death, of one of pain, one of suffering, why..."
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"You have heard that it was said, love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you, love your enemy and pray for..."
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"Okay, we are in this world to do as much good as possible. Thank evil people. because it gives you opportunity to do good,..."
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"...will remember, what you will leave behind is the amount of goodness you did or the amount of evil you did. Okay. Does that..."
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"Okay? We're here at most for sixty eighty years and what we do in these sixty eighty years will be will decide how we..."
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"...hedonism. Whereas we Russians, we believe in humanity. We believe in goodness. We believe in community, right? So if that is your argument, if..."
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"...How do I become a much more creative individual that brings goodness to the people around me?"
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"...and God. Okay. And the third thing is in the system, goodness does not mean to avoid sin. It's not impossible. Goodness means to..."
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"...evil. You must first understand sin for you to truly understand goodness, okay? All right. And so when they get there, there's a river..."
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"...evil. You must first understand sin for you to truly understand goodness. Okay? All right. And so when they get there, there's a river..."
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"...show us that no you think that generosity will lead to goodness no generosity will lead to evil you see how Prime is too..."
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"...to give us the strength to show us the path towards goodness. Okay, that's one theory. Another theory comes to us from biology. Okay,..."
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