With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.
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"The choice between the two spirits, the better and the bad, is to be made by each individually."
"May the good spirit overcome the evil spirit."
"Harmony with nature is essential for spiritual well-being."
"May your heart be full of love and your pockets full of... well, whatever you like."
"The greatest battle is within oneself. And sometimes, that battle is with the urge to hit the snooze button."
Iranian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism, the first major religion of cosmic dualism between good (Ahura Mazda) and evil (Angra Mainyu). Closely associated with The Buddha (near-contemporary Eastern moral-cosmological revolutionary). For an intellectual contrast, see Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher of 'beyond good and evil' — Nietzsche appropriated Zarathustra's name for Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) precisely to invert the original's moral cosmology — the historical Zoroaster founded the good-versus-evil framework Nietzsche's character announces the end of.
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Approach life without prejudice and actively seek out the best ideas from every source available. Weigh the most thoughtful and illuminating perspectives carefully before deciding how to live. Don't inherit your beliefs or let a crowd decide for you. Each person must investigate for themselves and make a deliberate, individual choice about the direction their life will take, owning that decision fully.
Zoroaster built his entire theology around personal moral choice between truth (asha) and the lie (druj), rejecting the tribal polytheism he was raised in after a vision at age thirty. As a reforming priest, he preached that salvation came through individual conscience, not ritual conformity. His signature teaching of Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds demanded exactly this kind of reasoned, self-directed commitment.
Living around 1500-1000 BCE on the Iranian steppes, Zoroaster confronted a world of hereditary priesthoods, animal-sacrifice cults, and rigid tribal customs where religion was inherited, not chosen. Bronze Age Indo-Iranian society demanded conformity to clan gods. Urging open inquiry and personal selection of belief was radical, foreshadowing later axial-age philosophies in Greece, India, and China that similarly elevated individual reason over inherited ritual.
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