Intellectual Thinking
"God would never reveal these things to the intellect, a part of your mind that is conditioned by the world and is so unreliable and so weak and so easily persuaded by other forces." [1]
"Only those minds that are separated and lost in valuing their own thoughts can possibly be separated from the great benevolence of God." [2]
Directives
"Hear these words, not with your intellect but with your heart." [3]
"You must hear this message with your heart, and you must feel this message in your heart. If you think about it, you may want to dismiss it because it seems either too uncomfortable, too strange, too alien, too challenging or too difficult." [4]
Directed Use of the Mind
"With this objectivity [of the Greater Mind], you will be able to determine those thoughts and patterns of thought that are helpful and those that are hindrances to you. You will be able to release your thoughts and be free of them because you are no longer a servant of your mind. Your mind now is a servant of Knowledge." [5]
The Limits of the Intellect
"Those who have intellectual pride, those who think they are intelligent and clever, those who think they can discern everything, those who think they know the truth, those who think they know what honesty is—this is the hypocrisy that will be revealed in the light of God’s Power and Presence in the world." [6]
"What people think and where the world is going are not the same." [7]
"Human rationality is merely a coping mechanism to deal with an uncertain and unpredictable world. It is appropriate in certain circumstances and hopeless in others." [8]
“The problem is that people want to be God without God. That is what has produced the world. So when you practice inner listening, you find out that you cannot be God without God. This is very disappointing. It is also a tremendous relief. The more you try to be God without God, the more isolated, alone and estranged you are. What surrounds you then, instead of relationships, are your own thoughts. You are caught in the middle of a web of your own thinking, and this is the great entanglement.” [9]
References
- ↑ The Gift of a New Life (May 14, 2011)
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 40: Today I will feel the power of God. (shared by the Messenger Marshall Vian Summers on the June 25, 2016 Campfire Chat)
- ↑ The Recitation (April 1, 2011)
- ↑ Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 11: What is your preparation for?
- ↑ Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 13: What must be unlearned?
- ↑ God’s Power & Presence in the World (April 23, 2011)
- ↑ The Story of the Messenger (May 23, 2011)
- ↑ The Initiation (June 28, 2011)
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 20: Inner Listening