Altruism
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Also: altruistic, altruistic impulses, altruistic service, altruistic, Unselfishness, unselfishness, unselfish interest, Selflessness.
Adjuster gives origin to unselfish interest in welfare of others; leads to happiness 103:1.1 103:2.7 (103:5.1,3)
differences in status of races and groups are essential to development of tolerance and altruismo 64:6.34
Every human being very early experiences something of a conflict between his self-seeking and his altruistic impulses (103:2.4,7-10)
Fire was a great civilizer, providing man with his first means of being altruistic without loss by enabling him to give live coals to a neighbor without depriving himself 69:6.3
In the Urantia Book
Altruism is learned in one’s family (84:7.28)
Noble soul is generous among the grasping (131:3.6)
Only religion lastingly increases altruism (99:1.5)
- only a well-unified personality can arbitrate multiform contentions regarding the ego cravings and altruism 103:5.4
- overdeveloped altruism may seriously injure the self 103:2.10
- reason, morality, and religion necessary for altruism 16:9.7-8
Selflessness is inherent in parental love (2:6.4)
- Is altruism—service of one’s fellows—desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality. Is unselfishness—the spirit of self-forgetfulness—desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor (3:5.7,13)
- It is neither tenderness nor altruism to bestow futile sympathy upon degenerated human beings, unsalvable abnormal and inferior mortals 52:2.12
Unselfishness
- Unselfishness is the badge of human greatness. 140:4.6
- Havona creatures are unselfish, but they never gained such levels of experience by the magnificent conquest of a belligerent self 3:5.17
- there is no Latin word for altruism 195:3.3
- Unselfishness, aside from parental instinct, is not altogether natural; other persons are not naturally loved 16:9.7
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- Greatest be server of all 28:6.18 — Acts 20:35.
- Greatest be server of all (quotation) 28:6.18 — Mt 20:26-27; Mt 23:11-12; Mk 9:35; Mk 10:43-44; Lk 22:26.
- More blessed to give 100:7.10 — Acts 20:35.
- Freely received, freely give 100:7.10 — Mt 10:8.
- All who seek shall receive 100:7.10 — Mt 7:8; Lk 11:10.
- Higher & lower natures 103:2.9 — Ro 6:6; Eph 4:22-24; Col 3:9-10.
Where it appears
Altruism is linked in 3 paragraphs of the text.