Goodness is real. However, it's not our personalities, or egos, which can attain real Goodness. They seek it nonetheless and ironically cut us off from what we most desire.
The very act of striving to be or do something "just right"--whatever it is we might want to be or do, and whatever it is we mean by "just right"--causes our personalities to become more crystallized--more hardened and unyielding. The harder a personality gets, the more of a trap it is. In trying to embody such Goodness, we build our own prison cells.
It's not that we shouldn't be Good. It's that we ARE Good, just as we are--a concept that is difficult for most of us. Until we come to experience our true inner Goodness, we tend to strive, turning our attention away from real Goodness and toward some idea we've put together (or which we have learned from our families or social groups) about what Goodness should look like.
The key is to turn inward and explore our deep experience. It's real and true, and it will lead us to know Goodness. Our feelings are our teachers.
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