We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality.

We haven't really internalized the earth being round.

Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.

Because what goes round, comes round. Karma.

Turn the other cheek.

Because two wrongs don't make a right and when there are no circuit breakers on the feedback loops, it all goes swirling down the drain.

Ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of every culture are ideals. Without which they would scatter to the winds. Go Tower of Babel.

While the universal is the elemental, so a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

The light shining through and animating the film, than the stories playing out on it.