curiosity

• disappears after last Havona world

14:5.7Not un­til you tra­verse the last of the Ha­vona cir­cuits and visit the last of the Ha­vona worlds, will the tonic of ad­ven­ture and the stim­u­lus of cu­rios­ity dis­ap­pear from your ca­reer. And then will the urge, the for­ward im­pulse of eter­nity, re­place its fore­run­ner, the ad­ven­ture lure of time.

• inborn divine endowment

14:5.10Love of ad­ven­ture, cu­rios­ity, and dread of mo­not­ony—these traits in­her­ent in evolv­ing hu­man na­ture—were not put there just to ag­gra­vate and an­noy you dur­ing your short so­journ on earth, but rather to sug­gest to you that death is only the be­gin­ning of an end­less ca­reer of ad­ven­ture, an ev­er­last­ing life of an­tic­i­pa­tion, an eter­nal voy­age of dis­cov­ery.

• urge of investigation and discovery

14:5.11Cu­rios­ity—the spirit of in­ves­ti­ga­tion, the urge of dis­cov­ery, the drive of ex­plo­ration—is a part of the in­born and di­vine en­dow­ment of evo­lu­tion­ary space crea­tures. These nat­u­ral im­pulses were not given you merely to be frus­trated and re­pressed. True, these am­bi­tious urges must fre­quently be re­strained dur­ing your short life on earth, dis­ap­point­ment must be of­ten ex­pe­ri­enced, but they are to be fully re­al­ized and glo­ri­ously grat­i­fied dur­ing the long ages to come.

• inborn divine endowment

16:7.1In­tel­li­gence alone can­not ex­plain the moral na­ture. Moral­ity, virtue, is in­dige­nous to hu­man per­son­al­ity. Moral in­tu­ition, the re­al­iza­tion of duty, is a com­po­nent of hu­man mind en­dow­ment and is as­so­ci­ated with the other in­alien­ables of hu­man na­ture: sci­en­tific cu­rios­ity and spir­i­tual in­sight. Man’s men­tal­ity far tran­scends that of his an­i­mal cousins, but it is his moral and re­li­gious na­tures that es­pe­cially dis­tin­guish him from the an­i­mal world.

• there are no arbitrary secrets

19:5.11I do not be­lieve the In­spired Trin­ity Spir­its are play­ing hide and seek with me. They are prob­a­bly try­ing just as hard to dis­close them­selves to me as I am to com­mu­ni­cate with them; our dif­fi­cul­ties and lim­i­ta­tions must be mu­tual and in­her­ent. I am sat­is­fied that there are no ar­bi­trary se­crets in the uni­verse; there­fore will I never cease in my ef­forts to solve the mys­tery of the iso­la­tion of these Spir­its be­long­ing to my or­der of cre­ation.

• mind reaches out to explore remote situations

42:12.43. Ex­plo­ration of re­mote sit­u­a­tions.

• hunger for harmony, thirst for beauty

56:10.61. Cu­rios­ity. Hunger for har­mony and thirst for beauty. Per­sis­tent at­tempts to dis­cover new lev­els of har­mo­nious cos­mic re­la­tion­ships.

• Jesus did not manifest c. about people

171:7.6He never seemed to be cu­ri­ous about peo­ple, and he never man­i­fested a de­sire to di­rect, man­age, or fol­low them up. He in­spired pro­found self-con­fi­dence and ro­bust cour­age in all who en­joyed his as­so­ci­a­tion. When he smiled on a man, that mor­tal ex­pe­ri­enced in­creased ca­pac­ity for solv­ing his man­i­fold prob­lems.

• do not try to satisfy all

195:5.10Do not try to sat­isfy the cu­rios­ity or grat­ify all the la­tent ad­ven­ture surg­ing within the soul in one short life in the flesh. Be pa­tient! be not tempted to in­dulge in a law­less plunge into cheap and sor­did ad­ven­ture. Har­ness your en­er­gies and bri­dle your pas­sions; be calm while you await the ma­jes­tic un­fold­ing of an end­less ca­reer of pro­gres­sive ad­ven­ture and thrilling dis­cov­ery.