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The answer is in the heavens, in the Greater Community. Look to the heavens for inspiration. Look to the Greater Community. Heaven itself is beyond the Greater Community, but the Greater Community is where you will instinctively look for the answer. | The answer is in the heavens, in the Greater Community. Look to the heavens for inspiration. Look to the Greater Community. Heaven itself is beyond the Greater Community, but the Greater Community is where you will instinctively look for the answer. | ||
*[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php ''Greater Community Spirituality''], chap. 18, p. 229 | *[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php ''Greater Community Spirituality''], chap. 18, p. 229 | ||
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| + | "You can’t return to your Ancient Home if your mind is set in Separation. You do not simply die and go to Heaven. You have to prepare for your Ancient Home, and that provides you a greater purpose for being in this physical reality, with all of its difficulties and challenges." | ||
| + | *Nature and Natural Disasters, September 8, 2008 | ||
=Long Quotes= | =Long Quotes= | ||
Revision as of 00:29, 13 November 2011
Short Quotes
A mind that is serious in its outward direction and lighthearted in its internal delight will be a mind that is fully integrated. This will be a mind where Heaven and Earth touch.
- Steps to Knowledge, Step 225
The answer is in the heavens, in the Greater Community. Look to the heavens for inspiration. Look to the Greater Community. Heaven itself is beyond the Greater Community, but the Greater Community is where you will instinctively look for the answer.
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 18, p. 229
"You can’t return to your Ancient Home if your mind is set in Separation. You do not simply die and go to Heaven. You have to prepare for your Ancient Home, and that provides you a greater purpose for being in this physical reality, with all of its difficulties and challenges."
- Nature and Natural Disasters, September 8, 2008
Long Quotes
In stillness all things can be known, for the mind is able to respond to Knowledge. Then, Knowledge will find expression in your specific thoughts and activities. Your mind was meant to serve Knowledge, as your body was meant to serve your mind. In this, the contribution from your True Home is able to express itself in the world of exile. Here Heaven and Earth touch, and when they touch, true communication begins to exist, and the transference of Knowledge is made into the world.
- Step 285