Anxiety
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Also: anxious, anxieties.
During the psychologically unsettled times of the twentieth century, amid the economic upheavals, the moral crosscurrents, and the sociologic rip tides of the cyclonic transitions of a scientific era, thousands upon thousands of men and women have become humanly dislocated; they are anxious, restless, fearful, uncertain, and unsettled; as never before in the world’s history they need the consolation and stabilization of sound religion. 99:4.6
anxiety can induce mystic state confused with Thought Adjuster communion, but it is not the case 100:5.10
many times we are demoralized by thoughtless panic of dread and anxiety 113:2.5
Too often, all too often, we mar our minds by insincerity and sear them with unrighteousness; we subject them to animal fear and distort them by useless anxiety. 9:5.7
Our anxieties and sorrows, our trials and disappointments, are just as much a part of the divine plan on our sphere as are the exquisite perfection and infinite adaptation of all things to their supreme purpose on the worlds of the central and perfect universe. 23:2.12
much that causes us serious concern often are senselessness 48:4.6
many of man’s foolish animal fears and childish anxieties thwarts work of Adjuster 108:6.2
In the Urantia Book
Jesus
- Jesus said: “Be not constantly overanxious about your common needs. Be not apprehensive concerning the problems of your earthly existence, but in all these things by prayer and supplication, with the spirit of sincere thanksgiving, let your needs be spread out before your Father who is in heaven.” 146:2.16
- Be not unduly anxious for the morrow. Sufficient for the day is the trouble thereof.” 140:6.13
- Anxiety must be abandoned. We must be not mindful of those things which foster our anxiety but rather at all times concern ourselves only with doing the will of the Father who is in heaven. 48:7.21 137:1.6
- Be not anxious or worried about the things of the temporal life, what you shall eat, nor yet for your body, what you shall wear. 165:5.2
- Jesus did not preach against forethought but anxiety, worry. 140:8.3
- The gospel of the kingdom provides a such vantage points of high living, that man is able to transcend the material irritations of the lower levels of thinking—worry, jealousy, envy, revenge, and the pride of immature personality. 160:1.6 160:3.5
- For Jesus prayer and worship are a way to avoid emotional tension 143:7.3 196:0.10
Humor, the cure for anxiety
- thanks to humor we are best able to discount the anxieties of the present in favor of the certainties of the future. 48:4.6
- While the humor of Urantia is exceedingly crude and most inartistic, it does serve a valuable purpose both as a health insurance and as a liberator of emotional pressure, thus preventing injurious nervous tension and overserious self-contemplation. 48:4.16-19
- Anxiety was a natural state of the savage mind. 86:2.1
- When men and women fall victims to excessive anxiety, they are simply reverting to the natural estate of their far-distant ancestors; and when anxiety becomes actually painful, it inhibits activity and unfailingly institutes evolutionary changes and biologic adaptations. 86:2.1
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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.
- Kingdom of heaven in you 108:6.2 — Lk 17:21; Ro 8:9-11; 1 Co 3:16-17; 1 Co 6:19; 2 Co 6:16; 2 Ti 1:14; 1 Jn 4:12-15; Rev 21:3.
- Don't be anxious 146:2.16 — Phil 4:6.
- Praise God with song 146:2.16 — Ps 69:30-31.
- No man may serve two masters 140:6.13 — Mt 6:24; Lk 16:13. *Be not anxious for your lives*: Mt 6:25,31-32; Lk 12:22-23. *Seek first the kingdom*: Mt 6:33-34.
- James and John selected 137:1.6 — Mt 4:21-22; Mk 1:19-20; Lk 5:10-11.
- Be not anxious about things 165:5.2 — Mt 6:31.
- God provides 165:5.2 — Mt 6:25-27; Lk 12:22-26.
- Gospel of the kingdom 160:3.5 — Mt 4:23; Mt 9:35; Mt 24:14; Mk 1:14-15.
- Jesus did His Father's will 196:0.10 — Mt 26:39,42,44; Mk 14:36,39; Lk 22:42; Jn 4:34; Jn 5:30; Jn 6:38-40; Jn 15:10; Jn 17:4.
Where it appears
Anxiety is linked in 2 paragraphs of the text.