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this attraction, but you cannot eradicate it from your life." | this attraction, but you cannot eradicate it from your life." | ||
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and the attraction to your Spiritual Family is stronger than the world itself." | and the attraction to your Spiritual Family is stronger than the world itself." | ||
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"Your Teachers do not stay up nights thinking about how they are going to rescue you from the next error you are about to commit. They are simply with the attraction. They amplify the attraction and they express the attraction. That will undo all of your errors. God is pulling you Home. Even the overwhelming threat of this world and all of its attractions, fears and inducements that seem to dominate every moment of your life are nothing compared to the pull of God." | "Your Teachers do not stay up nights thinking about how they are going to rescue you from the next error you are about to commit. They are simply with the attraction. They amplify the attraction and they express the attraction. That will undo all of your errors. God is pulling you Home. Even the overwhelming threat of this world and all of its attractions, fears and inducements that seem to dominate every moment of your life are nothing compared to the pull of God." | ||
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| + | "As you engage with Knowledge, even as you approach it, you will lose interest in most things that are not related to it. You will not want to run around so much. You will be drawn increasingly inward, as if a great attraction is pulling you to the very center of yourself, and you will not want so much stimulation. In fact, you will begin to value quiet and peacefulness more and more and noise and aggravation less and less." | ||
| + | <ref name="wgcI7">''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 7</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Personal attraction== | ||
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| + | "When you are vital in life, you will attract | ||
| + | people by your vitality and your direction.When you are moving, people | ||
| + | see you and respond to you.You have to respond to someone who is moving | ||
| + | because they have power.When you cease moving, you cease having | ||
| + | power and you become like an invisible person." | ||
| + | <ref>''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 8</ref> | ||
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| + | "Community is a natural process of attraction because one | ||
| + | individual will draw and gather other individuals around him or her. It | ||
| + | will be absolutely vital for their development and expression." | ||
| + | <ref name="wgcI13">''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 13</ref> | ||
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this is Knowledge or not. You are able to check yourself." | this is Knowledge or not. You are able to check yourself." | ||
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| − | to you.Temporarily. It is deeply stimulating to your life force, but it | + | to you. Temporarily. It is deeply stimulating to your life force, but it |
does not give expression or promise to it." | does not give expression or promise to it." | ||
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Revision as of 16:55, 31 December 2011
"God is everywhere, and the attraction to God is everywhere. It cannot be escaped forever." [1]
"God is the attraction. The Plan is the means. You feel God. God is like a great attraction pulling you. God is pulling everything in."
[2]
"God is like a great attraction without a marquee or a billboard.
God is pulling you along incessantly."
[3]
The Great Call
"Because God only knows God, then God attracts you because you are part of God." [4]
"God is moving things, like a great gravitational pull, moving things, often
imperceptibly—a great attraction. You are free in this world to not follow
this attraction, but you cannot eradicate it from your life."
[4]
"God’s service is everywhere. It moves through so many channels.Why
does it do this? Because it is a natural force of attraction. It is like gravity. It finds its way through everything. It will rearrange physical reality to
accommodate it, not because it is meddling, but simply because it is a natural
force that attracts."
[1]
"God’s Will is a force
of attraction that organizes all individuals that are separated at all levels of
existence.This force organizes everyone into perfect complements of each
other and this is what brings everything back to God."
[5]
"God’s Will is a force of attraction that organizes all individuals that are separated at all levels of existence. This force organizes everyone into perfect complements of each other and this is what brings everything back to God."
[5]
"What are Spiritual Families but groups of individuals who have
joined together out of this attraction and who, in a higher state of reality,
will join with other great groups, like rivers joining together on their way
to the sea. It is a greater and greater association based upon natural attraction,
which at higher levels becomes increasingly powerful."
[1]
"Your Spiritual Family is extremely powerful
and the attraction to your Spiritual Family is stronger than the world itself."
[6]
"When you open beyond your own thoughts, you will comprehend the
Presence that calls you and attracts you."
[7]
"Perfecting your behavior to meet your standards is not the Path of
Knowledge. Knowledge is not ideas. It is experience. It is relationship. It
is God. God is relationship. It is the attraction between like and like,
between the same and the same. That is God in a practical definition."
[8]
"Knowledge does not assault things and make them better.
Knowledge simply attracts. God does not come with a sword and cut
your world to pieces. God does not come and punish sinners. Sinners
punish themselves relentlessly. God attracts."
[9]
"God takes everything that you have made and every reality that you have imagined and sets it all into motion with a great attraction to return Homeward.
Within your own Knowledge you have this attraction. It is the great attraction from the Creator to the Created. If you are moving with it, you will demonstrate extraordinary power and grace in this world—not because you are a special person, but simply because your Knowledge has had the opportunity to shine through."
[1]
"Your Teachers do not stay up nights thinking about how they are going to rescue you from the next error you are about to commit. They are simply with the attraction. They amplify the attraction and they express the attraction. That will undo all of your errors. God is pulling you Home. Even the overwhelming threat of this world and all of its attractions, fears and inducements that seem to dominate every moment of your life are nothing compared to the pull of God."
[1]
"As you engage with Knowledge, even as you approach it, you will lose interest in most things that are not related to it. You will not want to run around so much. You will be drawn increasingly inward, as if a great attraction is pulling you to the very center of yourself, and you will not want so much stimulation. In fact, you will begin to value quiet and peacefulness more and more and noise and aggravation less and less."
[10]
Personal attraction
"When you are vital in life, you will attract people by your vitality and your direction.When you are moving, people see you and respond to you.You have to respond to someone who is moving because they have power.When you cease moving, you cease having power and you become like an invisible person." [11]
"Community is a natural process of attraction because one
individual will draw and gather other individuals around him or her. It
will be absolutely vital for their development and expression."
[7]
"Presence will always move you because it is going somewhere.
It is not fantastic images; it is experiencing the Presence of another. It is
experiencing someone else’s reality directly, not only intellectually.Then
you can look and see if the person who attracts you so strongly is going
where you are going because you have a sense of going somewhere."
[1]
Superficial attraction
"As Knowledge emerges, everything begins to fall into place.There are not so many choices.You feel a very strong attraction to another person, the kind that sort of sweeps you away, and instead of saying,“ Oh, how wonderful! Attraction!” and being swept away and then finding out later if there is any relationship there, you stop and you see if this is Knowledge or not. You are able to check yourself." [10]
"Attractions can be very fierce."
[2]
"You can identify the physical qualities of a relationship—the behavior
involved, the physical interaction, the personal habits, and so
forth—but the attraction is really mysterious."
[3]
"Part of the attraction of romantic love is that it seems to return vitality
to you. Temporarily. It is deeply stimulating to your life force, but it
does not give expression or promise to it."
[2]
"Affinity is
not yet relationship. Emotional attraction is not yet relationship. It is only
potential for relationship."
[12]
"In order to differentiate between recognition and attraction, you must
cultivate Knowledge, the ability and the foundation to know within your
own mind."
[13]
"Because you are deeply attracted to others does not mean that you
should yield yourself to them....
Until you are aware of your inclinations and until you are aware of the
difference between Knowledge and your personal side, between your
Spirit and your mind, you will simply be moved around by forces you
cannot explain. And those who are more certain than you will certainly
dominate you.They are more certain of what they want than you are, and
you will feel dominated."
[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 9
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 18
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 21
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 12
- ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 32
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 13
- ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 1
- ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 14
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 7
- ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 8
- ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 32
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 5
Further Study
- Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 2: Relationships & Sexuality
- Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 9: Spiritual Truths