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"True spiritual advancement is the result of a growing desire and capacity to experience Knowledge within yourself and compassion, affinity and purpose in your relationships." | "True spiritual advancement is the result of a growing desire and capacity to experience Knowledge within yourself and compassion, affinity and purpose in your relationships." | ||
| − | + | <ref>''[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]]'', chap. 3, p. 27</ref> | |
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== Long Quotes == | == Long Quotes == | ||
"Mystery can only be experienced. Therefore, to learn The Greater Community Way of Knowledge, to learn what Greater Community Spirituality means and why it is so essential for you and for your world, you must begin to have this experience. It will happen in increments, depending upon your desire for it, your resistance to it and your capacity to feel it and to carry it. As your desire and capacity grow and as your resistance lessens, the Mystery will take on greater and greater dimensions, and its rewards will grow for you." | "Mystery can only be experienced. Therefore, to learn The Greater Community Way of Knowledge, to learn what Greater Community Spirituality means and why it is so essential for you and for your world, you must begin to have this experience. It will happen in increments, depending upon your desire for it, your resistance to it and your capacity to feel it and to carry it. As your desire and capacity grow and as your resistance lessens, the Mystery will take on greater and greater dimensions, and its rewards will grow for you." | ||
"People's desire and capacity for truth and honesty, relationship and affinity are so very limited.... People everywhere have dedicated themselves to things that they must learn to outgrow. This takes much time, and there are many failures, but the possibility of success is there." | "People's desire and capacity for truth and honesty, relationship and affinity are so very limited.... People everywhere have dedicated themselves to things that they must learn to outgrow. This takes much time, and there are many failures, but the possibility of success is there." | ||
| − | + | <ref>[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]''], chap. 8, p. 88</ref> | |
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Revision as of 22:11, 2 January 2012
Short Quotes
"True spiritual advancement is the result of a growing desire and capacity to experience Knowledge within yourself and compassion, affinity and purpose in your relationships." [1]
Long Quotes
"Mystery can only be experienced. Therefore, to learn The Greater Community Way of Knowledge, to learn what Greater Community Spirituality means and why it is so essential for you and for your world, you must begin to have this experience. It will happen in increments, depending upon your desire for it, your resistance to it and your capacity to feel it and to carry it. As your desire and capacity grow and as your resistance lessens, the Mystery will take on greater and greater dimensions, and its rewards will grow for you."
"People's desire and capacity for truth and honesty, relationship and affinity are so very limited.... People everywhere have dedicated themselves to things that they must learn to outgrow. This takes much time, and there are many failures, but the possibility of success is there." [2]
References
- ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, chap. 3, p. 27
- ↑ Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 8, p. 88