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Jiang summarizes The Divine Comedy as a journey into one's own heart and faith.
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Jiang summarizes The Divine Comedy as a journey into one's own heart and faith.
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To be human is to do battle with one's own heart and become wiser, gentler, more poetic, and more generous through recognized guilt.
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Jiang endorses the creator model of poetry: only God and the poet deserve the name creator because the poet creates the heart and the world through imagination.
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Jiang says the logic of Jesus death cannot be solved by mind alone because the divine spark is in the heart and matures through love.
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Treasures in heaven means spiritual enlightenment and purity of heart matter because material possessions cannot follow the soul after death.
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Dostoevsky is used as the counter-model: the heart is a deep ocean, psychology responds to the world, and salvation requires others and community rather than self-mastery.
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Jiang defines Russian civilization as fatalistic rather than utilitarian or German-idealist: Russians accept what is given, see God as merciful redeemer, and treat the heart as the deepest site of knowledge.
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Jiang uses Anna Karenina to reject Western utilitarian romance: reason can calculate attraction and happiness, but the heart operates by its own logic and cannot be mastered.
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"...So the divine comedy is a journey really into your own heart and your faith. All right, any questions? Okay, all right, so we..."
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"...to be human, all right? To do battle with our own heart. Okay, so let me talk about what this all means. Like who..."
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"...the name of creator. The poet is the creator of our heart. The poet is the creator of our world because the poet has..."
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"...where the spark is okay the divine spark is in the heart so stop thinking with your mind and feel your heart and let..."
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"godness that has banished every envy from its own self burning itself and sparkling so it shows internal beauties all that derives directly from..."
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"...of god in us right the divine spark which is our hearts so there's always a this perfection in us okay keep on going..."
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"...break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
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"...so focus on your own spiritual enlightenment. Focus on making your heart pure, good, and virtuous. Don't worry about other people, don't worry about..."
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"...with Dostoevsky. Remember, before we discussed Dostoevsky. Okay. For Dostoevsky, the heart, it's a deep impenetrable ocean and our psychology responds to external events...."
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"On Thursday, we'll start the German civilization. And what you will see is that the Germans are very different. They are not utilitarians. They..."
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"...is to understand the mystery, miracle, and authority of the human heart. Okay, so whereas the Americans and British place their emphasis on science,..."
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"...which is trust. Okay? So this is telling us... That the heart is a mystery. It's something that you cannot reason out. Something that..."
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