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What is the meaning of life?

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The transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. God-knowing creatures have only one supreme ambition, just one consuming desire, and that is to become, as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.” ~ The Urantia Book, 1:0:3 (21.3) [2]

This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity is the first duty, and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This possibility of the attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man’s eternal spiritual progress. ~ The Urantia Book, 1:0:4 (22.1) [3]

And then the Master, turning to all of them, said: “Be not dismayed that you fail to grasp the full meaning of the gospel. You are but finite, mortal men, and that which I have taught you is infinite, divine, and eternal. Be patient and of good courage since you have the eternal ages before you in which to continue your progressive attainment of the experience of becoming perfect, even as your Father in Paradise is perfect.” ~ The Urantia Book, 181:2:25 (1961.4) [4]

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[3] https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-1-universal-father#U1_0_4
[4] https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-181-final-admonitions-and-warnings#U181_2_25