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* That the indwelling [[spiritual]] force is potentially directive.  
 
* That the indwelling [[spiritual]] force is potentially directive.  
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In all concepts of selfhood it should be recognized that the [[fact]] of life comes first, its evaluation or [[interpretation]] later. The human child first lives and subsequently thinks about his living. In the [[cosmic]] [[economy]] insight precedes foresight.
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In all concepts of selfhood it should be recognized that the [[fact]] of life comes first, its evaluation or [[interpretation]] later. The human child first lives and subsequently thinks about his living. In the [[cosmic]] [[economics|economy]] insight precedes foresight.
    
The universe fact of God's becoming man has forever changed all meanings and altered all values of human personality. In the true meaning of the word, love connotes mutual regard of whole personalities, whether human or [[divine]] or human and divine. Parts of the self may function in numerous ways—thinking, feeling, wishing—but only the co-ordinated attributes of the whole personality are focused in intelligent action; and all of these powers are associated with the spiritual endowment of the mortal [[mind]] when a human being sincerely and unselfishly loves another being, human or divine.
 
The universe fact of God's becoming man has forever changed all meanings and altered all values of human personality. In the true meaning of the word, love connotes mutual regard of whole personalities, whether human or [[divine]] or human and divine. Parts of the self may function in numerous ways—thinking, feeling, wishing—but only the co-ordinated attributes of the whole personality are focused in intelligent action; and all of these powers are associated with the spiritual endowment of the mortal [[mind]] when a human being sincerely and unselfishly loves another being, human or divine.

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