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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"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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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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