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[http://www.newmessage.org/books/greater-community-spirituality-contents.php ''Greater Community Spirituality''], chap. 14: "What Must Be Avoided?"
 
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Revision as of 05:03, 19 November 2011

Situations Distracting to Students

  • Past relationships no longer supporting the movement in your life
  • Self-important or mindless conversation, gossip, excessive sharing
  • Attachment to pre-conceived ideas or ambitions
  • Self-doubt, the need for self-justification or validation
  • Romantic attachments fostering fantasy over real relationship
  • Romantic visions of one's own role in the world

Abuses of Knowledge

  • Confusing Knowledge with personal preference
  • Rushing ahead of Knowledge
  • Failing to vericate with an ally in times of confusion or desire
  • Demanding full understanding, fabricating rationalization in the absence of understanding

Characteristics of Pitfalls

  • Arrogant, ignorant disregard for counsel
  • Diffuse focus: multiplying places, people, things, ideas; dabbling
  • Appropriation of another's way for one's own
  • Impatience, ambition

Typical errors

  • The belief there is no end of learning
  • Premature judgment, particularly of one's own past
  • Escapism, world renunciation
  • Self-deception or feigned ignorance
  • False assumptions

See also

Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 14: "What Must Be Avoided?"