Composure
"Jesus had acquired that type of human character which could preserve its composure and assert its dignity in the face of continued and gratuitous insult. He could not be intimidated."186:2.5
https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_186.html#186:2.5
Mortal man has a spirit nucleus. The mind is a personal-energy system existing around a divine spirit nucleus and functioning in a material environment. Such a living relationship of personal mind and spirit constitutes the universe potential of eternal personality. Real trouble, lasting disappointment, serious defeat, or inescapable death can come only after self-concepts presume fully to displace the governing power of the central spirit nucleus, thereby disrupting the cosmic scheme of personality identity. 12:9.6
https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_012.html#12:9.6
In the affairs of men's hearts the Universal Father may not always have his way; but in the conduct and destiny of a planet the divine plan prevails; the eternal purpose of wisdom and love triumphs. ~ 3:5.3
https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_003.html#3:5.2
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Tables Turned
The crack of overturning tables shatters the complacency of corrupt commerce. Jesus storms through the temple courts with righteous fury, driving out those who have turned his Father's house into a marketplace. Coins scatter, doves fly free, and religious leaders rage as their profitable system crumbles. More than furniture is overturned this day—an entire corrupt establishment is exposed.
You will learn that you increase your burdens and decrease the likelihood of success by taking yourself too seriously. Nothing can take precedence over the work of your status sphere -- this world or the next.
In the next world you will be asked to give an account of the endowments and stewardships of this world. Whether inherent talents are few or many, a just and merciful reckoning must be faced. If endowments are used only in selfish pursuits and no thought is bestowed upon the higher duty of obtaining increased yield of the fruits of the spirit, as they are manifested in the ever-expanding service of men and the worship of God, such selfish stewards must accept the consequences of their deliberate choosing.
176:3.8
https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_176.html#176:3.8
Pay close attention to today's Thought Gem We are exceedingly close to that point where retrogression looms ahead.
The slowness of evolution, of human cultural progress, testifies to the effectiveness of that brake — material inertia — which so efficiently operates to retard dangerous velocities of progress. Thus does time itself cushion and distribute the otherwise lethal results of premature escape from the next-encompassing barriers to human action. For when culture advances overfast, when material achievement outruns the evolution of worship-wisdom, then does civilization contain within itself the seeds of retrogression; and unless buttressed by the swift augmentation of experiential wisdom, such human societies will recede from high but premature levels of attainment, and the “dark ages” of the interregnum of wisdom will bear witness to the inexorable restoration of the imbalance between self-liberty and self-control. 118:8.6
https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_118.html#118:8.6