Self-gratification
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Mating, marriage, and home building are integral aspects of self-perpetuation and self-maintenance intertwined with elements of self-gratification attained through food satisfaction, play, humor, and sex indulgence. 84:0.2-3 84:8.2-3
Family provides highly satisfactory forms of self-gratification, making it man's greatest purely human achievement. 84:6.8
Self-gratification, growing out of vanity proclivity, is one of the institutions that contributed to early human association and social organization on Urantia. 68:2.4 69:1.5
The incidental object of home is self-gratification, but the real objects are self-maintenance and self-perpetuation for race survival. 68:2.9
Civilization has never evolved distinctive institutions of self-gratification. 69:1.5 84:8.2
Parents should avoid most forms of indulgence in order to raise children with laudable self-confidence and normal feelings of security, as shown by your wise and loving upbringing. 177:2.2
Property accumulation has evolved to serve as an instrument for augmenting all forms of self-gratification, while marriage is increasingly seen as merely a means of pleasure. 84:8.2
In the Urantia Book
Dangers
- The great threat against family life is the menacing rising tide of self-gratification. 84:8
- Excessive self-gratification hinders societal progress by eroding the balance between self-maintenance and base indulgence. (68:2.2,11)
- There is a great need for moral discipline in place of self-gratification to foster the development of a majestic and well-balanced personality. 195:10.17
- Jesus showed the universe the folly of using divine talents for selfish gain, a sin seen in Lucifer and Caligastia. 136:6.9
Where it appears
Self-gratification is linked in 1 paragraph of the text.