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In the Urantia Book

Achieving goals

  • While the attainment of each ascendant goal is a factual achievement, in the larger sense such goals are simply milestones on the long ascending path to Paradise. But however relative such successes may be, no evolutionary creature is ever denied the full though transient satisfaction of goal attainment. 39:4.7 44:8.3-5 (118:0.10,12)
  • we are provided of abundant assistance to achieve our goals 4:3.5
  • What we begin in time we will assuredly finish in eternity—if it is worth finishing. 111:3.7
  • the ideal human estate is that in which philosophy, religion, and science are welded into a meaningful unity by the conjoined action of wisdom, faith, and experience. 98:2.12
  • If we yield to the leadings of the spiritual forces in us and around us, you cannot fail to attain the high destiny established by a loving God as the universe goal of his ascendant creatures from the evolutionary worlds of space. 5:1.12
  • Man’s true destiny consists in the creation of new and spirit goals and then in responding to the cosmic allurements of such supernal goals of nonmaterial value. 12:9.1
  • Urantia mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for human beings, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve this destiny, they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in his sphere of infinity and eternity. 1:0.5
  • Goals, that which the enlightened and reflective human imagination of spiritual teaching and leading wholeheartedly and unselfishly wants to do and be, becomes measurably creative in accordance with the degree of mortal dedication to the divine doing of the Father’s will. 132:7.9
  • the highest happiness is linked with the intelligent and enthusiastic pursuit of worthy goals, and that such achievements constitute true progress in cosmic self-realization. 94:8.17
  • the life purpose must be jealously guarded from the temptation to seek for easy and transient attainment; likewise must it be so fostered as to become immune to the disastrous threats of fanaticism. 160:3.5
  • Religion pays any price essential to the attainment of the supreme goal, the eternal prize. 100:3.1
  • In Havona the ascending pilgrims discover what true study and real mental effort mean as they begin to discern the nature of the still-more-taxing and far-more-arduous spiritual exertion that will be required to meet the demands of the high goal set for their achievement on the worlds of this circuit. 26:7.1
  • “With God all things are possible; the eternal Creator is the cause of causes.” 2:1.2 3:2.2 26:5.3 107:4.7 131:10.2 163:3.2 182:3.2
  • work is important, the self is not 48:6.37

Value of goals

  • God the Father deals with man his child on the basis, not of actual virtue or worthiness, but in recognition of the child’s motivation—the creature purpose and intent. 103:4.5
  • Without a worthy goal, life becomes aimless and unprofitable, and much unhappiness results. 140:4.9
  • While the attainment of each ascendant goal is a factual achievement, in the larger sense such goals are simply milestones on the long ascending path to Paradise. 39:4.7
  • divinely watered souls are all but independent of material environment as regards the joys of living and the satisfactions of earthly existence. They are spiritually illuminated and refreshed, morally strengthened and endowed. 34:6.8
  • The only goals worth striving for are divine, spiritual, and eternal. 100:2.6 170:2.6
  • an animal becomes able to examine the different ways of attaining a goal and to select an approach based on accumulated experience. But a personality can also examine the goal itself and pass judgment on its worth-whileness, its value. 16:7.2-4
  • Goals rather than creeds should unify religionists. 99:5.7
  • Our spiritual destiny is conditioned only by our spiritual longings and purposes. 156:5.9

Supreme goals

  • This is a list of the supreme goals that are before human beings:
  • * achieving perfection | perfection
  • * arrive to Ascendington, the ultimate status sphere 13:0.6
  • * attainment of Supreme Being, and then God the Ultimate 0:7.10 0:9.1
  • * The great goal of human existence is to attune to the divinity of the indwelling Adjuster; the great achievement of mortal life is the attainment of a true and understanding consecration to the eternal aims of the divine spirit who waits and works within your mind. 110:3.4
  • * becoming a finaliter 14:6.39
  • * the social achievement of the brotherhood of man and the personal status of God-consciousness 71:4.15 143:1.4
  • * consecration to Father’s will and loyalty to Creator Son 20:1.14
  • * ever-ascending mobilization and perfecting unification of reality in association with Paradise reality 0:7.10
  • * exploring infinity of Universal Father 14:6.40
  • * fighting battle of reality’s triumph over partial shadows 101:10.9
  • * finding God and becoming like him 1:0.3 132:3.7
  • * finding God on Paradise (5:1.2,12) 11:9.8 14:2.8 48:8.1
  • * the goal of the ages: God, rest, and then eternity of perfected service 24:6.1
  • * the final attainment of the perfection of faith and service, that experience wherein we shall be “filled with all the fullness of God” 34:6.10
  • * Service—more service, increased service, difficult service, adventurous service, and at last divine and perfect service—is the goal of time and the destination of space. 28:6.17
  • * The goal of existence of all personalities is spirit; material manifestations are relative, and the cosmic mind intervenes between these universal opposites. 12:8.13 16:4.6
  • * trinitization, for some 13:1.13
  • * The eternal quest is for unification, for divine coherence. 2:7.7
  • * Wisdom is the goal of a purely mental and moral existence. 36:5.12
  • In a continually changing world, in the midst of an evolving social order, it is impossible to maintain settled and established goals of destiny. Stability of personality can be experienced only by those who have discovered and embraced the living God as the eternal goal of infinite attainment. And thus to transfer one’s goal from time to eternity, from earth to Paradise, from the human to the divine, requires that man shall become regenerated, converted, be born again; that he shall become the re-created child of the divine spirit; that he shall gain entrance into the brotherhood of the kingdom of heaven. 160:1.14

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.

See also

AmbitionsConsecration of choiceDesiresDestinyFree willProgressSelf-realization
Categories: Concepts and teachings