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This came in my email a few days ago. It is appropriate here.
It is a quote from the Urantia book. It is a book of great wisdom: Quote: Life will become a burden of existence unless you learn how to fail gracefully. There is an art in defeat which noble souls always acquire; you must know how to lose cheerfully; you must be fearless of disappointment. Never hesitate to admit failure or admit something is wrong. Never make wrong right and right wrong. *Make no attempt to hide failure or mistakes or insanity or perversion under deceptive smiles and beaming optimism. It sounds well to always claim success, but the end results are appalling. Such a technique leads directly to the creation of a world of unreality (mass insanity) and to the inevitable crash of ultimate disillusionment. It creates a world where wrong is right and right is wrong. That is called political correctness. Political correctness is a form of lying, it is mental lying. It is a form of mass insanity. ** It is intellectual and perceptual dishonesty. It happens on every level; in individuals, in any group from families to clubs to churches, to political groups, to businesses, to media, to countries, to the world.* Being positive to hide failure, mistakes, insanity or perversion eventually always creates an elephant in the room.This elephant will grow until the floor under gives way. Just because something is negative does not mean it is not true. Wrong is wrong and right is right. Call a spade a spade. Make wrong wrong and right right. The truth is the truth. 160:4.14 (1779.6) Success may generate courage and promote confidence, but wisdom comes only from the experiences of adjustment to the results of one’s failures. Men who prefer optimistic illusions to reality can never become wise. Only those who face facts and adjust them to ideals can achieve wisdom. Wisdom embraces both the fact and the ideal and therefore saves its devotees from both of those barren extremes of philosophy — the man whose idealism excludes facts and the materialist who is devoid of spiritual outlook. Those timid souls who can only keep up the struggle of life by the aid of continuous false illusions of success are doomed to suffer failure and experience defeat as they ultimately awaken from the dream world of their own imaginations. 160:4.15 (1780.1) And it is in this business of facing failure and adjusting to defeat that the far-reaching vision of religion exerts its supreme influence. Failure is simply an educational episode — a cultural experiment in the acquirement of wisdom — in the experience of the God-seeking man who has embarked on the eternal adventure of the exploration of a universe. To such men defeat is but a new tool for the achievement of higher levels of universe reality. 160:4.16 (1780.2) The career of a God-seeking man may prove to be a great success in the light of eternity, even though the whole temporal-life enterprise may appear as an overwhelming failure, provided each life failure yielded the culture of wisdom and spirit achievement. Do not make the mistake of confusing knowledge, culture, and wisdom. They are related in life, but they represent vastly differing spirit values; wisdom ever dominates knowledge and always glorifies culture. Wisdom is a higher caliber of knowledge gained from experience. David
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