The Blessing

"It is a way. It is a path. It is an awareness. It is a journey. It is a mountain to climb. That is the Blessing.

That is what will rearrange your life and give it meaning. That is what will organize your thinking and give you an escape from ambivalence and chaos. This, regardless of your circumstances, will bring the Blessing into your life so that others can see it and feel it and respond to it. It is intangible. It is ineffable. Yet it has the power to bring all the greater rewards into the human family."

"Be you of any position in society, it is the same challenge. It is the same gift. It will free you internally. It will bring your life into balance. It will restore to you the greater reason you have come into this world at this time, under these circumstances—the perfect time to be here for you. It will bring an end to shame and unworthiness if you can receive, if you can follow and understand."

"This power has been known to the true practitioners of religion throughout the ages, but it goes unrecognized for nearly all the people [today] regardless of their nation or their faith tradition.

This is why there is a New Message from God in the world—a Message to restore this faith, to emphasize its importance, to show you how it provides you freedom from vulnerability, freedom from anger, freedom from disappointment and disillusionment."

"Those who prepare for the future will be able to avoid its dangers and its dilemmas to a very great degree."

"We have often spoken about relationships, wishing to encourage people to step out of the relentless dilemma about relationships.We have given an important promise that is quite genuine: Discover your purpose and fulfill it, and all important relationships will find you."

Greater focus, greater resources

"You see, as you develop Knowledge and your mind becomes more refined, it becomes more focused and has greater concentration.Your physical body is then able to exercise greater energy, and it is able to accomplish more."

"As your purpose is realized, you will discover that your life will become increasingly focused and you will have greater demands upon your energy. They will be regenerative demands; they will be beneficial to you, but you must be physically capable."

"As you gain altitude on this mountain, you gain strength and clarity, and your life becomes simpler and more efficient, freeing up energy that you need now to proceed, to build a new foundation for yourself and, symbolically, to be able to proceed up this mountain with as little burden and resistance as possible."

"Now a person begins to awaken. Now they see that they are really here to do something; and they must go find out what that is; and they must look at where they are losing energy through mindless behavior, through relationships that lack a greater purpose, through meaningless involvements and through self-destructive behaviors. Now they really have to collect themselves, to regain their strength, to build a focus, to mount the effort that will be required to do what is before them to do. Now they must become sober regarding their desires and their fantasies. They begin living a real life."

"As you proceed, then, your life will have greater resources of energy. You will be able to undertake significant change in your life—change that you could not undertake before because you did not have the strength to do it. You did not have the potency within yourself to carry it through. Before, you saw things you knew you needed to do, but you did not have the strength to do them. You could not override your own mind or the opinions of others. You were just not strong enough to do it. Now you can do it, and it is giving your life greater flow and greater movement."

"Here you take your former self-determination and apply it to your desire to have Knowledge and to live a life of greater truth. That is the commitment. If this is being followed honestly and sincerely and if you are willing to work for it, then you will be able to generate sufficient energy to move forward on the Path of Knowledge."

See also

The Warning

Further Study

• 'God Has Spoken Again, Chapter 8: The Blessing

• The Pure Religion , Chapter 2: The Great Faith

• A Blessing from Marshall Vian Summers