Where does the hunger for goodness, the search for beauty and the thirst for truth come from? Is it the revelation of God and the instillation of divine reality? Or is it simply the evolution of the mind, desiring to have for itself some sense of pleasure, peace and comfort as a reward for simply being born?
Let's consider truth, beauty and goodness to see if they are born out of human will or whether they are the gift of God, seeking to be revealed from the heart of the human being.
Goodness: What is the standard of perfection? Is it to be found in the churches, synagogues, mosques, or other religious institutions? Is it something you can learn or does it occur naturally? Certainly we can learn the difference between right and wrong or good and evil; but who sets the standard? What if the standard of goodness is truth? How would you test this idea? Experience – having an experience of goodness in your own personal life leads to 
a revelation of truth.
Truth: What is truth, how do we know it's true? What if we only know part of the story? Is it still true? Or is it only true insofar as your personal experience has revealed? If your definition of truth is based on what your mind sees, what happens if you have new information? Is the old truth still true, or might we now say truth is relevant, relevant to personal experience? Perhaps truth is flexible, allowing for the evolution (or gradual development) of our unique personalities with the unique personal experiences, thus giving us the opportunity to thrive in a particular situation at any given time and place; leaving room for adjustment. Where does this beautiful grace come from? Is it possible you would not survive without this flexibility? Uniform and universal truth is divine truth.
Beauty: Why is something truly beautiful? Beauty is spiritually true and good. Beauty is the recognition of harmony and unification. Beauty is the activity of service upon the recognition of need, beauty is the rhythm of human experience.
The harmony of truth, beauty and goodness:
Truth is the basis of science and philosophy, presenting the intellectual foundation of religion. Beauty sponsors art, music, and the meaningful rhythms of all human experience. Goodness embraces the sense of ethics, morality, and religion -- experiential perfection-hunger.
The existence of beauty implies the presence of appreciative creature mind just as certainly as the fact of progressive evolution indicates the dominance of the Supreme Mind. Beauty is the intellectual recognition of the harmonious time-space synthesis of the far-flung diversification of phenomenal reality, all of which stems from pre-existent and eternal oneness.
Goodness is the mental recognition of the relative values of the diverse levels of divine perfection. The recognition of goodness implies a mind of moral status, a personal mind with ability to discriminate between good and evil. But the possession of goodness, greatness, is the measure of real divinity attainment.
Urantia Paper 56:10.10-12
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