“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years to live.” ---------Albert Einstein

This book, “Values of a Spiritual Mind” is written to expound on the importance of what some may consider insignificant. This under-rated subject is so important that the human population could not survive unless they exist. I am referring to the qualities of the spirit found within our body. Those qualities are so essential that if they disappeared from off the face of the earth, we would cease to exist.

We often hear of the divine qualities of the spirit through various interpretations. The qualities that I refer to are meekness, gentleness, kindness, goodwill, joy, goodness, self-control, and patience. Those divine traits bring cohesion to our world through love, peace, faith, and perseverance to maintain life to future generations.

The source of the divine qualities that blossom through the spirit lives within the human body. We can think of that source as being the root that absorbs moisture to give blossom to the fruit of the spirit. Only when we welcome, rejoice, and honor that presence of goodness in us does the divine fruit appear through us. We can know that we are in the presence of that divinity because we feel the soft, moist, tenderness in us, where the fruit of the spirit blossom.

The health of the human population would deteriorate to the point where we would no longer exist. Consider the atmosphere if just three spiritual fruits, goodwill, kindness, and love are extinguished from our inward being. That would fill the body with ill-will, cruelty, and hatred to one another. Instead of a sanitary environment, disease causing pathogens would invade. For example, in sexual activity disease would continue with no goodwill in finding a cure. Likewise, when producing food and drinking water, there would be no kindness, causing ill-processed resources that we consume. Without feelings of love for one another the air we breathe would be polluted, and every other aspect of our health is subject to disease. Without goodwill, love, and kindness, no one would be around to watch over our interests.

The safety and security of the world would not exist without the divine fruit of the spirit. Meekness, gentleness, and peace are essential qualities to bring a safe and secure world. If those qualities are absent from the spirit, then that is a world of terror without possibility of tranquility. Everyday we would experience violence, harshness, and forced domination over others. The physical, mental, and emotional anguish of constant abuses, threats, violence and chaos would result in the whittling away of the human population.

The social cohesion from around the world would cease to be if the divine fruits of the spirit are absent. The qualities of peace, love, faith, and perseverance are essential to bond the human race civilly. Is there any question what our social atmosphere would be without those qualities? The human race would be rampant with war, hate, faithless to others, with no consistency in cohesion. Every area of societal bonding would break down into rivalry, including schools, workplace, homes, community events, and the church. The human society would be wiped off the face of the earth if the divine qualities of the spirit were absent within us.

The value we feel for our worth would not exist without the divine fruit of the spirit. Consider three of those fruits that do wonders to build our esteem, goodness, joy, and faith. Imagine sensing a goodness about ourselves, to feel joyful in our self-estimation, and to have faith in coming blessings. However, for those qualities to be void in the human race leaves us with evilness about our worth, saddened about what we are, and faithless about future endeavors. In essence, there would seem to be no future, and only evilness in the present. The value of the worth of the human race would be wiped off the face of the earth without the divine fruit of the spirit.

Communication would not exist without the divine fruit of the spirit. Verbal and non-verbal self-expression should include self-control, patience, and perseverance to allow mutual exchanges. Self-control allows us to hold our tongue or responses so that we can listen fruitfully. Patience allows us to speak a word only when something edifying can be said or done. Perseverance allows us to seek goodness in word and deed on a continual basis. Without those divine qualities, communication would be filled with uncontrollability, impatient with others ideas, and inconsistent with every word or deed conveyed. Communication would be incapable of holding the human race together, and would lead to further hostility. The population of the people would be wiped off the face of the earth without communication flowing from a divine spirit.

Some people do not want the divine qualities to live in the spirit of our inner being. Their intentions are hostile to the civility, and well-being within the population. As they oppose peace, faith, love, and perseverance they induce anger, depression, societal ill. People like that refuse to find common ground with those who desire peace in the world for everyone. They refuse to accept the divinity in each person, which produces the qualities necessary to sustain life.

We can assess that without the qualities of the divine spirit in us, the human race would be wiped off the face of the earth. The diagnosis is that some people do not want those qualities to live within us, causing social deterioration. Even so, we plan to live according to the divinity in us where goodness for the world blossoms. We implement that plan by honoring the divine presence in us, where the soft, moist, tender qualities are present. The evaluation involves seeking the qualities of meekness, gentleness, goodwill, kindness, joy, and goodness to within us. We want to convey peace, love, faith, and perseverance to bring longevity to the human race.