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NoME Part Four: Chapter 10: Session 873, August 15, 1979 2/44 (5%) idealist ideals impulses condemning geese
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Four: The Practicing Idealist
– Chapter 10: The Good, the Better, and the Best. Value Fulfillment Versus Competition
– Session 873, August 15, 1979 9:31 P.M. Wednesday

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(Pause.) Life at all levels of activity is propelled to seek ideals, whether of a biological or mental nature. That pursuit automatically gives life its zest and natural sense of excitement and drama. Developing your own abilities, whatever they may be, exploring and expanding your experience of selfhood, gives life a sense of purpose, meaning, and creative excitement — and also adds to the understanding and development of the society and the species.

[... 9 paragraphs ...]

(Pause.) In larger terms, there are really only scientific and religious men and women, however, and fields of science and religion would be meaningless without those individuals who believe in their positions. As those men and women enlarge their definitions of reality, the fields of science and religion must expand. You must be reckless in pursuit of the ideal — reckless enough to insist that each step you take along the way is worthy of that ideal.

[... 25 paragraphs ...]

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