The world
Short Quotes
In some traditions the Earth itself is considered sacred—-the entire Earth, not one particular place. But the Earth is not sacred; it is just the Earth.
- The Sacred 4/29/08
The world, in its great change, can serve you if you can approach it correctly. The shock of the world can prepare you. It can shake you out of your dreams of happiness and disaster. It can bring you to your senses. It can call upon your strengths and your determination and most certainly your compassion for people.
- The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011)
The world has what you need only insofar as it can give you the opportunity to give, to engage yourself fully and to avoid the little preoccupations, addictions and difficulties that keep people in chains here.
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11, p.128
What people think and where the world is going are not the same.
- The Story of the Messenger (May 23, 2011)
This world is such a beautiful place, so rich biologically, with so many important resources that are difficult to find in a universe of barren worlds.
- Entering the Greater Community (May 27, 2011)
Anything can happen to you while you are here. Yet Knowledge will protect you if you can respond to it. Knowledge will lead you to the right people and will develop slowly and carefully the right understanding if you are patient, persistent and honest in your approach.
- Living the Way of Knowledge (Chapter 1, Living in an Emerging World)
Long Quotes
[T]he world is a place where you have come to serve, to give and to reunite with those whom you are destined to meet, to know and to participate with.... The world is primarily a place to give.... You have come from beyond the world bearing gifts for the world.... Instead of a place to proclaim yourself and to establish yourself, it is a place to get something done behind the scenes, in secret, without recognition and acclaim.
- Greater Community Spirituality, ch. 2, pp. 11-12
God is not managing the world.
God is not creating the catastrophes, the storms, the earthquakes, the floods, the droughts.
God is watching to see how humanity will deal with a world it has changed—a new world, a new and unpredictable world.
- The Recitation (April 1, 2011)
Many people around the world are feeling a great discomfort, a great uneasiness about the condition of the world, and have grave concern for the future of the world and for the future of humanity. They sense and feel and know that they are living at a time of great power, a time that will determine the fate and the outcome for humanity. This is not an intellectual understanding as much as it is a visceral experience, a powerful recognition, an innate sense of awareness—all of which come from Knowledge within people.
- The Blessing (April 20, 2007)
God is calling you to respond, both within yourself and to the signs of the world. To see the signs, you must be looking and paying attention, not just here and there, but continuously. Like the birds in the air and the animals in the field, you are watching your environment. Just like them, you have a great need to do this.
Everything you value—your future, the people you care about, even your own life—will depend upon this. It is not looking with fear. It is not living in a state of trepidation. It is looking with clear eyes, with the power and the presence of Knowledge.
That will make all the difference in whether you can see or not and whether you can look upon the world with dread and anxiety or with certainty, compassion and determination.
- The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011)