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"To find a greater identity and a greater purpose in life, you must go beyond human speculation | "To find a greater identity and a greater purpose in life, you must go beyond human speculation | ||
and all the self-comforting ideas that you find reassuring or familiar."<ref name="gcs2"/> | and all the self-comforting ideas that you find reassuring or familiar."<ref name="gcs2"/> | ||
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| + | ==Negotiating Relationships== | ||
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| + | "Knowledge must be demonstrated in your relationships, | ||
| + | for these are the most difficult areas in which to be impartial. These are the most difficult areas in | ||
| + | which to act without fear, guilt or preference. And these are the most difficult areas to release that | ||
| + | which does not serve you." <ref name="rhp3"/> | ||
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| + | "When real meaning, purpose and value are not self-evident, people assign value to their relationships based upon their own | ||
| + | immediate needs, preferences and understanding. This is how the substitutes for real meaning, purpose | ||
| + | and value become established. This makes it very difficult for most people to have any comprehension | ||
| + | of the true meaning, purpose and value of their own relationships. For without the truth, there can only | ||
| + | be the substitutes for the truth. Real spiritual growth is concerned with outgrowing or setting aside the | ||
| + | substitutes for truth so that the truth itself may be approached, comprehended, accepted and embraced." <ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-most-primary-relationship Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship]</ref> | ||
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| + | "You are living in the world, so you cannot see the world from a greater vantage point, at least | ||
| + | not yet. But you can learn how to fit with others and how to allow for others not to fit with you. This | ||
| + | would be obvious if you could see this clearly without preference or denial. Yet most people try and | ||
| + | build their entire lives on preference and denial. You can learn how to naturally fit with others, but you | ||
| + | must learn this patiently through direct experience with people." <ref name="rhp3">''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/relationships-higher-purpose/your-relationship-with-others Chapter 3: Your Relationship with Others]</ref> | ||
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It is only to reposition yourself in life in order to allow a greater understanding and Knowledge to | It is only to reposition yourself in life in order to allow a greater understanding and Knowledge to | ||
emerge within you. This makes union with life and in life possible."<ref name="gcs2">''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 2: What is the World?</ref> | emerge within you. This makes union with life and in life possible."<ref name="gcs2">''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 2: What is the World?</ref> | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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Revision as of 15:44, 2 November 2016
"To find a greater identity and a greater purpose in life, you must go beyond human speculation and all the self-comforting ideas that you find reassuring or familiar."[1]
Negotiating Relationships
"Knowledge must be demonstrated in your relationships, for these are the most difficult areas in which to be impartial. These are the most difficult areas in which to act without fear, guilt or preference. And these are the most difficult areas to release that which does not serve you." [2]
"When real meaning, purpose and value are not self-evident, people assign value to their relationships based upon their own immediate needs, preferences and understanding. This is how the substitutes for real meaning, purpose and value become established. This makes it very difficult for most people to have any comprehension of the true meaning, purpose and value of their own relationships. For without the truth, there can only be the substitutes for the truth. Real spiritual growth is concerned with outgrowing or setting aside the substitutes for truth so that the truth itself may be approached, comprehended, accepted and embraced." [3]
"You are living in the world, so you cannot see the world from a greater vantage point, at least not yet. But you can learn how to fit with others and how to allow for others not to fit with you. This would be obvious if you could see this clearly without preference or denial. Yet most people try and build their entire lives on preference and denial. You can learn how to naturally fit with others, but you must learn this patiently through direct experience with people." [2]
Seeing Without Preference
"You will be frustrated because you will see things that others cannot see, and you will know things that others either cannot or will not know. This is the price of knowing the truth. It sets you apart. Yet, this separation is temporary. It is only to reposition yourself in life in order to allow a greater understanding and Knowledge to emerge within you. This makes union with life and in life possible."[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 2: What is the World?
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 3: Your Relationship with Others
- ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 1: Your Most Primary Relationship