For what is really meant by ‘goodness’ here is sanctity, and sanctity, in a person, is measured by the degree to which that person conforms themself, from moment to moment, to reality as it is, rather than as it could be when it is shaped toward their interests or desires. The reason that sanctity works this way, when it appears in the individual, is because it partakes of the same substance as sanctity in the cosmic or supernatural sense, the essence of which, I think, is a sort of happy inaction that I can only describe as arising out of the confidence and security that belong to the conditions of divine love (or the force we know as the Holy Spirit) when it is at rest.