User:Admin/Key Concepts Grab Bag
From Symmetry of Soul
Study Approach/Life Advice
- Distinguish ideas versus ideals.
- Practice wholehearted devotion to supreme values, with unquestioning loyalty.
- Let go
- Fear not. Though only if you're not in darkness. If you're in darkness, you need the fear of the Lord. [149:6.5]
- Do this and you will have real peace that passes all understanding
- The problem with anti-. Be for things, not against things.
- Quid est veritas?. It isn't words on a page, it must be lived.
- Discover, recognize, interpret, and choose. Recognize: A place that precedes analysis. Delay analysis and interpretation.
- Strive to be a second miler. Don't assume you are one.
- Be unnatural, that is, artful (artificial)
- Don't be a helpless victim of antecedent causation
- Be more than a fancy animal.
- Natural versus artificial
- Do better than your built-in error and evil detector
- Be a human, not a computer
- Transcend, don't repress
Essential concepts/analogies/metaphors
- Plan Z is often called for, after Plans A-Y failed to meet the evolutionary moment.
- Revelation versus evolution
- Revolution versus evolution
- Back door versus front door analogy as it relates to experiential deity.
- False dichotomy
- The value is in the potentiality, not the actuality
- Time is an appearance, not a reality
- Positive response to a negative stimulus
- Pain and suffering are essential to progressive evolution
- Preservation, observation, and conservation
- Place versus direction
- Perfect versus perfecting
- Happiness versus joy
- Quality versus quantity
- Mind made and personality managed
- Ill-humor versus ill-will, avoid hatred because it is self-destructive
- Pride goes before a fall
- Parenting advice because family is the nucleus of civilization
- Choice versus decision
- Appearance versus reality
- Fact versus truth
- Ideas versus ideals
- Unity versus uniformity
- Sight versus insight
Sociological observations
- We are no longer in sheltered bays, so more is expected of us in these times.
- Don't limit yourself to the ignorance of others
- None is so blind as he who will not see
- Society, culture, and civilization
- The indispensables to civilization
Additional Important Concepts
- Commandments
- Hemisphere analogy
- Origin, history, and destiny
- Matter, mind, and spirit
- Look before leaping
- Spirit is a substance
- Tornado through a junkyard
- Infinity has consequences
- Capital-J Judges
- Creator versus creature. Hint: you're a creature.
- End from the beginning
- Every moment is a divine dispensation
- God's infinite and eternal nature
- In supremacy, there are no coincidences
- Kindred spirits versus kindred minds
- Self-assertion versus free will
- Through the looking glass of Deity.
- Will, action, and purpose
- Wisdom, insight, and foresight
- 6th century B.C.
- Doing versus being
- Error, evil, sin, and iniquity. Error is falsehood given form in your mind
- Personality versus temperament
- True monogamy
- Ours is a universe of motion, not fundamentally a universe of matter.
- Change without growth is potential evil
- Facets of cosmic character
- Gospel of the kingdom
- What is human experience? Active and questioning selves required!
- Suddenly
- The meaning of life is its adaptability
- The mind of perfect poise
- The observer is not the thing observed
- This is the way
- Deity and reality explained with a two sides of your hand analogy
Language Discrimination
- Chance versus luck
- Chaos versus cosmos
- Temperament versus character
- Compassion versus sympathy. The former is in the inner life. The latter in expressed in the outer life.
- Courage versus bravery
- Created equal versus born equal
- Deity versus reality
- Egoism versus altruism
- Equality versus equity
- Essence versus substance
- Ethical versus moral
- Faith and trust versus trust and faith
- Faith versus belief
- Form versus substance
- God-consciousness versus God-knowingness
- Good versus evil
- Intention versus motivation
- Inventive versus creative
- Liberty versus freedom
- Personality itself versus the personalized self
- Progress versus growth
- Religious experience versus spiritual experience
- Ubiquitous versus omnipresent
- Urge versus impulse
- Fear, dread, awe, and reverence
- Folkways, mores, and morals
- Just, fair, patient, kind, and merciful
- Prayer, worship, and thanksgiving
- Truth, beauty, and goodness
Things that came up but didn't become "key"
- Levels of mortal wisdom
- 12 properties of a religionist
- Conditions of effective prayer
- Seven levels of salvation
- Seven psychic circles
- The twelve
- Three great satisfactions
- Mota
- Fourteen facets of Deity
- Be a loyal tadpole
- Strive to be in a parallel stream first, then engage the mainstream.
- The Urantia Book, The Urantia Papers, and the Fifth epochal revelation
- Uncertainty with security
- Acquire a long-distance view
- Believing in versus believing with Jesus
- Pilate's greatest hits
- Take your salvation for granted. But only if it's safe to do so, only if you seek God's righteousness.
- Human sources for the authors of The Urantia Book.
- A coordination is a system of associations