“Love is the essence of religion and the wellspring of superior civilization.”  [UB 112405]

Thought Adjuster: “The above statement is well worth pondering.  Indeed, there cannot be a true religion—in the unifying sense of the word—without love.  I am not speaking here of a mere mental allegiance to what you conceive as love, as love has been greatly misunderstood, and thus doing, desecrated.

Thought Adjuster: “What is your natural emotional habitat?  It is the most appropriate emotional setting for you to thrive.  Indeed, the Father’s Great Plan is an all-encompassing Master Plan that is ‘doomed to succeed’ exceeding by far your wildest dreams.

“The natural emotional human habitat has been intended to be a place of loving interaction, where peace, mutual acceptance and respect ‘naturally’ thrive as byproducts of Love, with “L”.

Definition: “A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. One could also say that a utopia is a perfect "place" that has been designed so there are no problems.”

“It requires courage to invade new levels of experience and to attempt the exploration of unknown realms of intellectual living.”  [UB 1114:00]

“[Jesus] inspired all with his words of faith, hope and courage.”  [UB Paper 154, Section 5]

“Problematic situations, coupled with exertion stimuli, conspire to produce those activities of mind, soul, and spirit which contribute mightily to the achievement of worthy goals of mortal progression and to the attainment of higher levels of spirit destiny.”  [UB Paper 154, section 2]

Thought Adjuster: “As you wish to establish a connection with Me, you are stilling your mind and putting it in neutral by initiating a mental countdown from ten to zero.  It is a very effective way to give Me the floor.  How so?

“The Creators are possessed of full power to make Urantia [Earth] a veritable Paradise, but such an Eden would not contribute to the development of those strong, noble, and experienced characters which the Gods are so surely forging out on your world between the anvils of necessity and the hammers of anguish. [UB 23:2.12]

Thought Adjuster: “Let us talk about quality control in reference to friendships and heart connections.  There is a natural process of quality control that takes place in relationships.

“But mind can never succeed in this unification of the diversity of reality unless such mind is firmly aware of material things, intellectual meanings, and spiritual values; only in the harmony of the triunity of functional reality is there unity, and only in unity is there the personality satisfaction of the realization of cosmic constancy and consistency.” [UB102:2.5 (1120.2)]

Thought Adjuster: “You were mentioning that what appears to you as mighty challenges is a stroll in the park for beings in a higher state of evolution and consciousness.  Indeed, their experiential reality differs greatly from yours, as they already have overcome many of the emotional and spiritual hurdles that you are bound to encounter along your ascension journey.