This entire website is dedicated to projects. But any virtue, taken to extremes, may become a vice. In this case, I call it projectitis–pursuing projects with the blinders on and getting weighed down by them. In order to cure my projectitis, I’m creating . . . a new project . . . on love. We know when love is flowing in and flowing out. And we know when it is not happening. When that occurs, we need an on-ramp to love. The Urantia Book has several such on-ramps; and here are four of them.
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1:0.2 (21.2) The myriads of planetary systems were all made to be eventually inhabited by many different types of intelligent creatures, beings who could know God, receive the divine affection, and love him in return.
Knowing God is the on-ramp to a reflection that discerns the divine affection in the God we know and know about.
2:7.10 (43.3) Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love. . . . 2:7.12 (43.5) Truth is coherent, beauty attractive, goodness stabilizing. And when these values of that which is real are co-ordinated in personality experience, the result is a high order of love conditioned by wisdom and qualified by loyalty.
110:3.6 (1206.4) You can consciously augment Adjuster harmony by: 110:3.7 (1206.5) 1. Choosing to respond to divine leading; sincerely basing the human life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness, and then co-ordinating these qualities of divinity through wisdom, worship, faith, and love.
The last on-ramp comes at the end of this quote. 124:4.9 (1372.6) Throughout this and the two following years Jesus suffered great mental distress as the result of his constant effort to adjust his personal views of religious practices and social amenities to the established beliefs of his parents. He was distraught by the conflict between the urge to be loyal to his own convictions and the conscientious admonition of dutiful submission to his parents; his supreme conflict was between two great commands which were uppermost in his youthful mind. The one was: “Be loyal to the dictates of your highest convictions of truth and righteousness.” The other was: “Honor your father and mother, for they have given you life and the nurture thereof.” However, he never shirked the responsibility of making the necessary daily adjustments between these realms of loyalty to one’s personal convictions and duty toward one’s family, and he achieved the satisfaction of effecting an increasingly harmonious blending of personal convictions and family obligations into a masterful concept of group solidarity based upon loyalty, fairness, tolerance, and love.
On ramps reveal ingredients in divine love. As we grow in them, our love becomes more God-like.
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