Everything you wanted to know about virtues—but religion made you afraid to ask.

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Does “virtuous” make you think of… pious? Or… integrity? How about this: virtues are higher states of consciousness that Life is always trying to pour into us.

LOVE is a virtue. Not a feeling.
Compassion is a virtue, not an ideal.
Forgiving is a virtue, not an act.

And you don’t “do” virtues, you embody them.
And embodying virtues is why we’re here.

Forget all the religious messaging.
Being virtuous is where ALL the happiness is.
All of it. Everything we crave is in the energy of the virtues.

How do Virtues become vices? Well, let me tell you a story about Darth Vader…

I’m out to make Virtuousness so much lighter than it’s been pitched to us for centuries. No signaling, no punishing systems, and dogma-free.

We’re taking virtues back in this episode of WITH LOVE, DANIELLE. You may never look at Love in the same way again. Come onnn in…

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0:00.0	Divinity, shadow, ego, inner child, virtue, goodwill, love, truth, life, purpose, and everything
0:13.0	that is between you and the infinite. This is a conversation about how to be loving.
0:20.0	I'm Danielle Laporte.
0:21.7	Welcome to my podcast with love, Danielle.
0:28.7	I'm not a Star Wars super buff, but I want to talk about Darth Vader.
0:36.7	How did Darth Vader actually begin? He was a lover, not a
0:41.2	fighter. Darth Vader was just a heartbroken Jedi. He lost his love, right? He tried to save his
0:49.4	beloved wife with her cinnamon bun hair rolls from death.
0:56.0	Couldn't save her.
1:01.2	The heartbreak drove him to madness as we see happen with so many villains.
1:03.2	And then what do they do?
1:06.7	They can't stand the pain and they give their energy to the dark side.
1:10.0	So they contort something so pure.
1:13.5	And then they turn it into a weapon for oppression.
1:22.1	What is that? It's a vice, not a virtue. They take the virtue, it all starts off as a virtue.
1:29.2	They twist it up, and boom, there we have a vice. Harry Potter's nemesis, Voldemort. He was an orphan,
1:34.2	apparently really tenderhearted named Tom Riddle. If you move all those letters around,
1:41.0	they spell he who shall not be named. And it was his half blood status. You know, he was part wizard, part human. He could have used that for a force for healing,
1:45.6	but being on the outside, not belonging, his abandonment pain drove him to madness, and then he
1:52.1	used his goodness, the virtuousness, the magic to just feed his shadow. These stories go on and on,
1:58.7	right? The wicked witch and wizard of Oz, at least in the Broadway play,
2:02.1	she was a social outcast that loved the wrong boy,
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