Virtue promotes the enhancement of the human person beyond what has been imposed upon us by societal standards, dominant ideologies, and our wounds. Virtue teaches us that we must think, act, and speak based on moral principles, not based on how society or the media tells us to.

In descending order of importance, the virtues are  benevolence or ren ( 仁 ), righteousness or yi ( 义 ), propriety or li ( 理 ), wisdom or zhi ( 智 ) and fidelity or xin ( 信 ) .

Paradise is a place of Contentment, a land if luxury and fulfillment containing ever-lasting bliss. Paradise is often described as a “higher place”, the holiest place, in contrast to this world, or underworlds such as hell. In eschatological contexts, Paradise is imagined as an abode of the virtuous dead.