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"There are no flaws in the soul of every human being"

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Ma Jaya’s line lands like a spiritual mic drop: it refuses the modern obsession with self-optimization and diagnosis by declaring the core self already intact. Coming from a teacher, it’s less Hallmark comfort than classroom provocation. The intent isn’t to deny harm, bad behavior, or trauma; it’s to relocate them. “Flaws” get pushed out of the soul and into the realm of conditioning - fear, ignorance, pain, habit. That shift matters because it changes the stakes. If the soul is unflawed, then shame loses its favorite weapon: the idea that you are, at bottom, defective.

The subtext is quietly political. In a culture that monetizes insecurity, “no flaws” challenges industries built on making people feel broken enough to buy a fix. It also rebukes moral hierarchies: if every soul is whole, the usual sorting mechanisms (successful/failed, pure/tainted, deserving/undeserving) look less like truth and more like social bookkeeping.

There’s risk in the phrasing, too. “Every human being” can sound like a bypass around accountability, especially when real damage has been done. But as teaching, the line functions as a discipline: separate the person from the patterns. You can condemn actions without branding someone as fundamentally ruined. In that framework, change becomes possible not through self-hatred, but through the steadier work of remembering what you are beneath what happened to you.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Jaya, Ma. (2026, January 11). There are no flaws in the soul of every human being. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-no-flaws-in-the-soul-of-every-human-183894/

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Jaya, Ma. "There are no flaws in the soul of every human being." FixQuotes. January 11, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-no-flaws-in-the-soul-of-every-human-183894/.

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"There are no flaws in the soul of every human being." FixQuotes, 11 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/there-are-no-flaws-in-the-soul-of-every-human-183894/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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Ma Jaya (May 26, 1940 - April 16, 2012) was a Teacher from USA.

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