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Great effort is exerted in building things that can fall apart in a moment, things that have no stability or permanence. | Great effort is exerted in building things that can fall apart in a moment, things that have no stability or permanence. | ||
*Continuation Step 3 | *Continuation Step 3 | ||
| − | + | Some people can walk away from a relationship, but they are so bound to their ideas, their beliefs or their assumptions that they are not free to leave them. This is what it means to wear a crown of thorns. This is when the mind is a crown of thorns. You wear it, but it torments you. It seems to give you a kingly title, but in fact it is a harness of misery. It seems to elevate you and give you stature in the world, but in fact it cuts you and hurts you, binds you and mocks you. | |
| + | *[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php ''Greater Community Spirituality''] chap. 14, p. 171 | ||
== Quotes from Outside the New Message from God == | == Quotes from Outside the New Message from God == | ||
<nowiki>what Got him was Noth | <nowiki>what Got him was Noth | ||
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Short Quotes
[T]he crown of thorns that you wear ... represents your attempt at fulfillment in the world.
- Step 96
Great effort is exerted in building things that can fall apart in a moment, things that have no stability or permanence.
- Continuation Step 3
Some people can walk away from a relationship, but they are so bound to their ideas, their beliefs or their assumptions that they are not free to leave them. This is what it means to wear a crown of thorns. This is when the mind is a crown of thorns. You wear it, but it torments you. It seems to give you a kingly title, but in fact it is a harness of misery. It seems to elevate you and give you stature in the world, but in fact it cuts you and hurts you, binds you and mocks you.
- Greater Community Spirituality chap. 14, p. 171
Quotes from Outside the New Message from God
what Got him was Noth ing & nothing's exAct ly what any one Living (or some body Dead like even a Poet)could hardly express what i Mean is what knocked him over Wasn't (for instance)the Knowing your whole(yes god damned)life is a Flop or even to Feel how Everything(dreamed & hoped & prayed for months & weeks & days & years & nights & forever)is Less Than Nothing(which would have been Something)what got him was nothing
e. e. cummings