Excerpts
"My friend, I have the pleasure of humbly sharing with you the greatest
piece of knowledge in the universe. It can transform and electrify your
life with the thrill of growth and the hope for improvement in any
situation. This is the Universal Religion, not merely an endless
existence of dull ease, but one beyond our greatest hopes and
conceptions of happiness, opportunity, satisfaction, and adventure."
(p. 1)
"The experience
of the heavenly Father is endless and unlimited. The possibilities and
joys of your relationship with God are majestic, outstretched,
glorious, noble, and ideal. The love of God helps us achieve these high
levels of living here and now, not only after death. When we
experience God, we should immediately strive to emulate Him, knowing He
brings that perfect peace of soul and mind with resulting spirit
fruits." (p.107)
"Let's go
forward together. Let's be our true selves. Everyone who responds to
the divine leading will grow. Can we believe what's been done to us?
Can we comprehend the glory and outrageous achievement awaiting us?
We're blessed with the gift of the ages, the continual renewing of the
Spirit." (p.191)
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"It's very
important to remember that while God is the source of the basic
material of life, He shouldn't be held responsible for His creatures'
misuses of it, nor does he conjure these events. God gives us a choice;
we can use these tools as we wish, either benefiting or harming
ourselves or others. Freewill is the gift of God and He respects our
right to choose and thus lets us take a route to experience the
consequences of such decisions --good and bad." (p. 70)
"O.K. Let's be honest and realistic
about our lives; let's admit our faults and failings and examine
(no small task) our situation. We must be willing to accept the cause of
our dissatisfactions and ascertain the essentials of goal realization,
instead of pleasure stimulation and work avoidance. This is the surest
way to work out our problems and improve our lives. Let's do what's
necessary to live the ideal life, our ideal vision. Everything else is
a mere avoidance game." (p. 132)
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Table
of Contents
Introduction
1. It's Not Too Good to Be True: The
Real Adventure
2. Our Loving Father: A Person, a
Friend
3. The Nature of God: What God is
Like
4. Seeing God Live: In God's
Universe
5. Relating to God: You Can Touch
God
6. The Family of God: The People
Around You
7. The Spirit of God: Your Guide,
Your Companion
8. Growth: Becoming Eternal
9. Growing: Getting Down to
Business
10. Love: The Attitude of Our Father
11. The Answer of Answers: The Key to
Spirituality
Description
There is nothing to join -- no
group, no religion, no institution. This is a book about knowing God firsthand
without middlemen or interference. This is a book about fulfilling your
spiritual rights.
This is a book about transformation and triumph. This is a book about
becoming your best, fulfilling your dreams, and doing the seemingly
impossible.
I'm pleased and thrilled to have the
opportunity to share an amazing discovery and set of principles to help
you achieve continual transformation--The Universal Religion. The
Universal Religion-Essentials for a Joyful Life, is a handbook on
how to find your real life, your real destiny, and how to get
there.
This book is a culmination and
encapsulation of my understanding of the most profound and valuable
spiritual resource I've found. The Universal Religion: Essentials
for a Joyful Life is inspired by The Urantia Book
and amply supported by quotations from our great religious traditions as
well as contemporary expressions. This is truly a book which you can
integrate with your present valued truths (in a religious tradition or
otherwise) because it places ageless truths in a new context and
unifies them around the basic overarching truths of The Universal
Religion. It is these universal truths which will unify humankind and
get you charged up and excited about life.
The text is open, plain, and meaningful,
brimming with powerful insights and useful techniques for furthering
the spiritual life. The chapters are arranged in a logical sequence
where the basic foundation truths lead easily one to the next, until
the whole of the spiritual life is illuminated, combining the
best of the Eastern and Western approaches. You can know God as a
person and friend while enjoying the experience of contacting His
Spirit and seeking guidance.
This book is designed to take your heart
and mind on a journey of spiritual progress that will never end. I
promise you that your total dedication to truth and openness of heart
will be rewarded by these pages.
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