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-==The Body as Prison==
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-"If you think that your vehicle is your self, you will hate the
-vehicle because it will seem to trap you and you will feel imprisoned,
-bound and limited by it."
-<ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 31: Healing</ref>
-"People only love their bodies when they serve a higher purpose.To
-love your body for any other reason is simply to use it for selfish reasons,
-which will breed resentment.Your body must enable you to extend your
-sense of relationship in life. If it does not do this, it is a prison."<ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 6: Health</ref>
-"If you do not know your purpose or your greater reality, then you will think of your body as a prison and you will exercise your self-abuse by misusing your body. It will then become an image of your self-neglect or self-abuse." <ref>''[[Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training]]'', Step 50</ref>
-==The Prison of the Mind==
-"What keeps people from being free is not their external circumstances. It is their
-own mind and their own thoughts.They are prisoners to their thoughts."<ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 20: Inner Listening</ref>
-"Without a greater
-authority in your life, this is what the mind will do. It will calcify and become hard and brittle. It will
-become impenetrable and impermeable, something that defends its point of view without any regard to
-reality or to changes in circumstances. This imperils you and imprisons you. This denies you and
-isolates you. This prevents you from having access to others and learning from them. This denies your
-gift and your ability to receive the gifts of others." <ref>''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 13: What must be unlearned? </ref>
-"Most of the miseries
-that confound and imprison the human mind are escaped as one advances in The Way of Knowledge,
-but not all suffering is escaped. Life continues to be difficult and problematic. Your body has its aches
-and pains. Your mind has its problems and troubling thoughts, feelings and experience, but they do not
-dominate your attention now, and as you advance they cannot hold you back or limit your experience." <ref>''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 19: What is Religion?</ref>
-==The Doorway Out==
-"People ask,“How can I rid myself of these terrible
-judgments? I see I have these judgments.They are binding me, imprisoning
-me, weighing upon me.They torment me. How can I get rid of
-them?”Well, you cannot get rid of them where you are, but you can do
-something else in life where they are not necessary, and then they begin to
-evaporate. God has a Plan and how the Plan works is that it gives you
-something meaningful to do in life."<ref>''[[Wisdom from the Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 23: Forgiveness</ref>
-"The door to your prison cell is open. You can push it open at any time. You
-can walk out into the light of day. For this to happen, however, you must be willing to have a different
-experience of yourself and a different determination within you. You must be open and desiring of a
-greater life—a life that is not in keeping with your past and that will bring you out of the confinement
-of living within your personal mind. As a result of this escape, even your personal mind will be
-refreshed, renewed and restored, for your personal mind’s greater purpose is to serve Knowledge."<ref>''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 25: What is Grace?</ref>
-"In the state of interdependence, you are able to give and receive in a truly
-meaningful way. Here devotion is possible because from a position of responsible decision making,
-you can give your life to something. Gaining the ability to do this represents the real value and purpose
-of independence. Without this, your independence will only isolate you further and further within your
-own mind and your own thoughts. It will become a great prison house from which the possibility of
-escape will seem increasingly difficult and remote." <ref>''[[Greater Community Spirituality]]'', Chapter 22: Where can Knowledge be found?</ref>
-==Further Study==
-[http://www.newmessage.org/greater-community-spirituality-chapter-13-must-unlearned-2 What Must Be Unlearned?]
-==References==
-<references/>
-[[category:mental environment]]

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