~ ἆ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ _/ The Golden Rule \_~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ᾮ ~ . ~* The Golden Rule is the code of morality that essentially states that: You should treat others as you would like others to treat yourself. . ~* Some persons discern and interpret the golden rule as a purely intellectual statement of human mutual support. Others experience this expression of human relationship as an emotional gratification of the tender feelings of the human personality. Another mortal recognizes this same golden rule as the yardstick for measuring all social relations, the standard of social conduct. Still others look upon it as being the positive injunction of a great moral teacher who embodied in this statement the highest concept of moral obligation as regards all fraternal relationships. In the lives of such moral beings the golden rule becomes the wise centre and circumference of all their philosophy ~ . ~* In the kingdom of the believing brotherhood of God-knowing truth lovers, this golden rule takes on living qualities of spiritual realization on those higher levels of interpretation which cause the mortal sons of God to view this injunction of the Master as requiring them so to relate themselves to their fellows that they will receive the highest possible good as a result of the believer’s contact with them. This is the essence of true spirituality: that you love your neighbour as yourself ~ . ~* And so must we clearly recognize that the golden rule can only be comprehended by living it, by realizing its meaning in the living interpretation of the Spirit of Truth, who directs the loving contact of one human being with another ~ . [ Writing produced using extracts taken from the Urantia Book ] . ~ ἆ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~_/ Ʈђe Kingdom of God is within all \_~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ᾮ ~ ~ ἆ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~_/ Embrace it with all of your heart \_~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ᾮ ~ ~
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