Your most heroic acts are those of which you may not even be aware.
Like the time you could have gotten even with the guy in the next cubicle, and nobody would have known. And you really wanted to. But you didn’t, just because it’s not right.
You may not have been impressed—you may even have been disappointed with yourself. But the angels burst into song, as all your world rose up a notch. It may have been the most elevating act of a lifetime.
Heroic acts are not heroic if they’re second nature. It’s when you break out of your nature that you enter the realm of the divine.
What is this talk of wanting to enter the realm of the Divine? Why is such an entry so highly regarded and not the more ordinary need to simply be oneself? That can include something heroic too, but the jump to another higher realm is not necessarily the right way for a human having human natures to perform. This is along the philosophical lines of Hillel the Elder who did not try to get us to love our neighbors but merely not to cause them offense.
i understand this, as concerning the ten commandments the majority are of a 'thou shalt not' instead of a 'thou shalt' bent.