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"For who can wait? Can you wait, really wait for the time, for the moment?"<ref>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/new-messenger/the-requirements-of-the-messenger The Requirements of the Messenger (March 12, 2013)]</ref>
 
"For who can wait? Can you wait, really wait for the time, for the moment?"<ref>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/new-messenger/the-requirements-of-the-messenger The Requirements of the Messenger (March 12, 2013)]</ref>
  
==Abiding==
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[[File:Wait.jpg|right]]
  
"You have Knowledge within you, waiting to be discovered."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 35: Achieving Peace</ref>
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==Directives==
  
"You have a Spiritual Family that is waiting to prepare you, to activate your spiritual life and your Knowledge while you are here in the world."<ref name="aar">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 32: Achievement & Relationship</ref>
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"True honesty brings about the ability to wait, the ability to evaluate oneself
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constructively, the ability to discern, the ability to not speak when it is appropriate, the ability to speak
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when that is appropriate, the ability to follow a Greater Power within you, the ability to abide with what
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is known and the ability to avoid or step away from that which is harmful or untrue." <ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/honesty Chapter 9: Honesty]</ref>
  
"Your Teachers stand by while you go through everything. Most of it is quite boring to them, but they are waiting for the opportunity, and they are providing you with the quality of love and the orientation that you will never find in the world."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter  27: Disappointment</ref>
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"You must wait for things to come about. You must wait for certainty. You
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must wait for confirmation. You must wait for companionship. You must wait for the results that you
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want now. And in many cases, you must realize that some of the goals that you have set for yourself
 +
will never be obtained."<ref name="wvii18"/>
  
"Knowledge knows what you need and what you don’t need. If you can open yourself to Knowledge, wait for Knowledge and abide with Knowledge, then you will have an opportunity to know where to draw the line for yourself."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume Two'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/possessions Chapter 2: Possessions]</ref>
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"Be open,
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compassionate, patient, observant, and ready to act. Wait for the moment when action is truly called for
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and resist all of the premature motivations for you to act. Be committed to learning and to unlearning
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and to discovering the truth no matter what you may have to confront within yourself and no matter
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what you may have to do" <ref name="wvii18">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/compassion Chapter 18: Compassion]</ref>
  
"At times the way seems lonely and uncertain, but something in you is guiding you forward. Here you must follow a greater calling, a calling you cannot understand, a calling you have not yet learned to appreciate, a calling whose trials and tribulations, though seemingly large in the moment, are in fact small compared to the greater rewards awaiting you."<ref name="wvii3"/>
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==Learning to wait==
  
"When you learn stillness, you learn to act with great determination, and you also learn to wait for what stimulates great determination."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 29: Faith & Fear</ref>
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"By the very nature of studenthood, one must wait to learn. Yet, during this time of waiting, one must apply oneself. One must seek a
 +
curriculum of preparation, and one must become very observant of others." <ref name="wvii20">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II'', Chapter 20: Learning from Others</ref>
  
"The only difficulty is when your Knowledge is in conflict with what you want. Then Knowledge must wait."<ref name="eh">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 21: Enduring Happiness</ref>
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"Learning not to judge here is very important. So are learning observation, learning stillness of mind,
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learning to listen within yourself as you listen to others, learning to be patient, learning to forego self-comforting
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ideas, learning to forego early conclusions while you wait for a greater realization, learning
 +
to live without so many self-definitions and learning to accept your problems and to work with them
 +
constructively. This involves giving other people the benefit of the doubt and learning to understand
 +
why they are reacting the way they are, for many people are poorly equipped to be a part of a world
 +
that is emerging into the Greater Community." <ref name="wvii18"/>
  
"The Teachers have a very difficult job, very
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"Students of Knowledge become attentive and observant within and without. They learn this
difficult. That is why they have so few students. They
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because it is necessary. They seek a deeper direction, and they must patiently wait for this to emerge. In
must contribute to a very insane situation and set of
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fact, it is often the waiting that is most important for their development. If you can learn to wait, you
circumstances. They must do this single-mindedly, with
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can learn to trust. If you can learn to trust, you can learn to observe. If you can learn to observe, you
great patience and compassion. They must allow their
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can learn to recognize things. This is a very important part of your education." <ref name="wvii20"/>
beloved students to create calamity after calamity. They
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do not promote this, yet if that is the students’ ambition,
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"When you learn stillness, you learn to act with great determination, and you also learn to wait for what stimulates great determination."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', Chapter  29: Faith & Fear</ref>
who can prevent them? Therefore, we discourage things
 
that are obviously detrimental, yet we do not control or
 
manipulate our students. That is not our function. Our
 
true ability and resources are only waiting for others to
 
call upon them. For this, we may have to wait a long time,
 
a very long time."<ref>''Secrets of Heaven'', Secret 281</ref>
 
  
 
==Potential==
 
==Potential==
  
"Greater possibilities ... are waiting for you."<ref name="wvii3">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume Two'', Chapter 3: Pleasure</ref>
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“Many people in the world have not been able to give themselves to the religious traditions of humanity because there is something in them that has told them to wait. Perhaps they justify this based upon the limitations or the difficulties existing within certain traditions. But that is not really the issue, you see, for they are really meant for something else, and they have had to wait for the Revelation. It is not merely that their tradition is inadequate in some way. The truth is they are meant for something else because of their nature and their design, because of their purpose, because of destiny.”<ref>”The Time Of Revelation”,[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-1/the-time-of-revelation/destiny Destiny]</ref>
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"Greater possibilities" ... "are waiting for you."<ref name="wvii3">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II'', Chapter 3:[https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/greater-pleasure Pleasure]</ref>
  
"Your purpose in life is waiting to be discovered once you have reached a state of maturity."<ref name="aar"/>
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"Your purpose in life is waiting to be discovered once you have reached a state of maturity." <ref name="aar">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', Chapter 32: Achievement & Relationship</ref>
  
"Hidden deep within you is your calling in life, waiting to be activated, waiting until all the internal and external conditions are ready for it to emerge and express itself."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 20: Inner Listening</ref>
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"Hidden deep within you is your calling in life, waiting to be activated, waiting until all the internal and external conditions are ready for it to emerge and express itself."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', Chapter 20: Inner Listening</ref>
  
"There are genuine relationships waiting for you in life, waiting for you to be ready and desirous of them, but you must have the capability and the desire."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 30: Perception</ref>
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"There are genuine relationships waiting for you in life, waiting for you to be ready and desirous of them, but you must have the capability and the desire."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', Chapter 30: Perception</ref>
  
 
"Allow the changing focus and direction of your life to illustrate to you the greater value that is awaiting you."<ref name="wvii3"/>
 
"Allow the changing focus and direction of your life to illustrate to you the greater value that is awaiting you."<ref name="wvii3"/>
  
"If we but give you the first piece of the puzzle,
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"indeed, you can know if they are an appropriate prospect for
will you run around saying it is the answer, when it is but
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relationship for you. How can you know this? Because Knowledge within you will say 'yes' or 'no.'
the first piece? And can you wait patiently while hundreds
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If Knowledge does not say 'yes,' then it is 'no.' 'No' can mean that this person is not appropriate, or
of pieces are given to you, patiently fitting them together
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it can mean that you must wait and not become engaged."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/what-is-discernment Chapter 6: Discernment]</ref>
in sequence?"<ref>''Secrets of Heaven'', Secret 116</ref>
 
  
 
==Languishing in Time==
 
==Languishing in Time==
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"Do you wonder why people let situations become intolerable? That is a very marked tendency in human beings, both individually and collectively. People wait until the situation is dire because then everyone must go into action."<ref name="aar"/>
 
"Do you wonder why people let situations become intolerable? That is a very marked tendency in human beings, both individually and collectively. People wait until the situation is dire because then everyone must go into action."<ref name="aar"/>
  
"Often people become very lazy here because they are waiting for something to change them. Then if it goes wrong, they have someone else to blame.“Hey, I was just there and it changed. Don’t blame me!” But to take full responsibility means that you are cooperating with life in bringing about the necessary adjustments as you proceed."<ref name="pc">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 33: Provoking Change</ref>
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"Often people become very lazy here because they are waiting for something to change them. Then if it goes wrong, they have someone else to blame.“Hey, I was just there and it changed. Don’t blame me!” But to take full responsibility means that you are cooperating with life in bringing about the necessary adjustments as you proceed."<ref name="pc">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/provoking-change Chapter 33: Provoking Change]</ref>
  
"Fundamental questions are answered by an experience—an experience that at the very outset can be quite painful, as it is painful at times to touch upon something that has been waiting for you for oh so long. But the pain of this is quickly replaced by greater insight and a realignment within yourself once you have hit upon an essential truth. These experiences are the result of moments of introspection often begun by grave disappointment and carried out in times of reappraisal."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume Two'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/ambition Chapter 1: Ambition]</ref>
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==Knowledge Makes One Wait==
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"Fundamental questions are answered by an experience—an experience that at the very outset can be quite painful, as it is painful at times to touch upon something that has been waiting for you for oh so long. But the pain of this is quickly replaced by greater insight and a realignment within yourself once you have hit upon an essential truth. These experiences are the result of moments of introspection often begun by grave disappointment and carried out in times of reappraisal."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/ambition Chapter 1: Ambition]</ref>
  
 
"If you feel a spiritual emergence arising within you that you must respond to,
 
"If you feel a spiritual emergence arising within you that you must respond to,
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patiently. Believe me, when I say you must wait for Knowledge, think how
 
patiently. Believe me, when I say you must wait for Knowledge, think how
 
much Knowledge must wait for you! But because Knowledge is not trying
 
much Knowledge must wait for you! But because Knowledge is not trying
to become anything, it can afford to wait."<ref name="eh"/>
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to become anything, it can afford to wait."<ref name="eh">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/enduring-happiness Chapter 21: Enduring Happiness]</ref>
  
 
"Because people have difficulty waiting for anything, they will attempt
 
"Because people have difficulty waiting for anything, they will attempt
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to fulfill your life, you will begin to open.This is part of the preparation
 
to fulfill your life, you will begin to open.This is part of the preparation
 
for Knowledge, for without your constant attempt to manage and control
 
for Knowledge, for without your constant attempt to manage and control
your destiny, something else begins to emerge within you."<ref name="sitw">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/service-in-the-world Chapter 10: Service in the World]</ref>
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your destiny, something else begins to emerge within you."<ref name="sitw">''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/service-in-the-world Chapter 10: Service in the World]</ref>
  
==Beyond Time==
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==The Wait After Life==
  
"You had to wait a long time to come here. You cannot just enter the world at will, you know. You have to wait in line."<ref>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1 ''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One''], Chapter 6: Health</ref>
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"You had to wait a long time to come here. You cannot just enter the world at will, you know. You have to wait in line."<ref>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1 ''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I''], [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/health Chapter 6: Health]</ref>
  
 
"Your Teachers represent the future because they are what will be awaiting you when you leave this world."<ref name="sitw"/>
 
"Your Teachers represent the future because they are what will be awaiting you when you leave this world."<ref name="sitw"/>
  
"This life is preparation, like childhood is preparation for adulthood. Adulthood is preparation for your Spiritual Family, who will be waiting for you when you arrive and pass through the thin membrane that separates these two realms of existence."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 13: Spiritual Community</ref>
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"This life is preparation, like childhood is preparation for adulthood. Adulthood is preparation for your Spiritual Family, who will be waiting for you when you arrive and pass through the thin membrane that separates these two realms of existence."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/spiritual-community Chapter 13: Spiritual Community]</ref>
  
 
"When you leave this world, you go back to your Home and you
 
"When you leave this world, you go back to your Home and you
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so obvious! Why was I such a miserable person? I was only there for a few
 
so obvious! Why was I such a miserable person? I was only there for a few
 
years, yes? It seems like yesterday that I was with you all. Well, I want to go
 
years, yes? It seems like yesterday that I was with you all. Well, I want to go
back.When can I do it?” And you find out you have to wait a little while." <ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/giving-i Chapter 15 Giving I]</ref>
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back.When can I do it?” And you find out you have to wait a little while." <ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/giving-i Chapter 15 Giving I]</ref>
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"But when you leave the classroom after eighty years, more or
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less, you go home to your 'parents,' who are your [[Spiritual Family]]. It was
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just a very long day in class, that’s all—so long, in fact, that it allowed you
 +
to concentrate on the classroom entirely." ... "If you were in a classroom for eighty years and you were thinking
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about home, you would have a hard time being in the classroom.'Can’t
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wait to get home!' You can remember how it was when you were a little
 +
kid, waiting for the time to come around when school was out. Couldn’t wait, watching the clock, couldn’t hear the teacher. Just waiting for the time to pass."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', Chapter 18: Higher Education</ref>  
  
 
==Metaphors==
 
==Metaphors==
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"You are waiting for that spark of truth that runs like a current through humanity, and
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you are opening yourself so that it may run through you, so that you may conduct it and be a terminal
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for its expression." <ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II'', Chapter 23: Becoming Wise</ref>
  
 
"Our teaching is very simple. It takes time, it has many steps, but it is
 
"Our teaching is very simple. It takes time, it has many steps, but it is
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who must wait oh so long for the right moment to act.This ability to
 
who must wait oh so long for the right moment to act.This ability to
 
stalk your prey, whether it be an animal on the hunt or Knowledge within
 
stalk your prey, whether it be an animal on the hunt or Knowledge within
yourself, is something that has been lost in your society to a great extent."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter  26: Stillness</ref>
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yourself, is something that has been lost in your society to a great extent."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/stillness Chapter  26: Stillness]</ref>
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"If we but give you the first piece of the puzzle,
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will you run around saying it is the answer, when it is but
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the first piece? And can you wait patiently while hundreds
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of pieces are given to you, patiently fitting them together
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in sequence?"<ref>''Secrets of Heaven'', Secret 116</ref>
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"Take on the big problem of your life, do not neglect the little ones and you will open doors that are
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waiting for you, for they are open already."  <ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-2/solving-problems Chapter 8: Solving Problems]</ref>
  
 
"One of the
 
"One of the
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that makes everything else possible. By leaving things alone, I am not saying
 
that makes everything else possible. By leaving things alone, I am not saying
 
you neglect things because the good gardener never neglects the garden, but he or she understands that there is a greater process that actually
 
you neglect things because the good gardener never neglects the garden, but he or she understands that there is a greater process that actually
produces and brings about the results in a predictable manner.... Knowledge waits for the moment and then gives
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produces and brings about the results in a predictable manner." ..." Knowledge waits for the moment and then gives
the remedy."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 31: Healing</ref>
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the remedy."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I'', [https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1/healing Chapter 31: Healing]</ref>
 
 
"But when you leave the classroom after eighty years, more or
 
less, you go home to your 'parents,' who are your Spiritual Family. It was
 
just a very long day in class, that’s all—so long, in fact, that it allowed you
 
to concentrate on the classroom entirely.... If you were in a classroom for eighty years and you were thinking
 
about home, you would have a hard time being in the classroom.'Can’t
 
wait to get home!' You can remember how it was when you were a little
 
kid, waiting for the time to come around when school was out. Couldn’t wait, watching the clock, couldn’t hear the teacher. Just waiting for the
 
time to pass."<ref>''Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One'', Chapter 18: Higher Education</ref>
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
  
 
<references/>
 
<references/>
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==See Also==
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[[Abiding]]
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[[Do not wait]]
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[[Impatience]]
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==Further Study==
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*[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-3/steps-knowledge ''Steps to Knowledge''], Step 1: I am without Knowledge now.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', between Steps 9 & 10: Why am I doing this anyway?
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 95: How can I possibly fulfill myself?
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*'''''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 101: The world needs me, but I will wait.'''
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 137: I will accept the mystery of my life.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 142: I will be consistent today.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 167: With Knowledge I am free in the world.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 177: I will learn to be honest today.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 207: I forgive those whom I think have hurt me.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 240: Small ideas cannot fulfill my need for Knowledge.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 250: I will not hold myself apart today.
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*'''''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 265: There is a greater freedom awaiting me.'''
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 274: I seek freedom from ambivalence today.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 275: Today I seek freedom from uncertainty.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 292: How can I be angry with the world when it only serves me?
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*'''''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 321: The world is awaiting my contribution.'''
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 328: Today I will honor those who have given to me.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 331: What is small expresses that which is great.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 358: I wish to be at home in the world.
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*''Steps to Knowledge'', Step 365: I am committed to learn to learn. I am committed to give what I am meant to give. I am committed because I am part of life. I am part of life because I am one with Knowledge.
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[[Category:Practice]]

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"For who can wait? Can you wait, really wait for the time, for the moment?"[1]

Wait.jpg

Directives

"True honesty brings about the ability to wait, the ability to evaluate oneself constructively, the ability to discern, the ability to not speak when it is appropriate, the ability to speak when that is appropriate, the ability to follow a Greater Power within you, the ability to abide with what is known and the ability to avoid or step away from that which is harmful or untrue." [2]

"You must wait for things to come about. You must wait for certainty. You must wait for confirmation. You must wait for companionship. You must wait for the results that you want now. And in many cases, you must realize that some of the goals that you have set for yourself will never be obtained."[3]

"Be open, compassionate, patient, observant, and ready to act. Wait for the moment when action is truly called for and resist all of the premature motivations for you to act. Be committed to learning and to unlearning and to discovering the truth no matter what you may have to confront within yourself and no matter what you may have to do" [3]

Learning to wait

"By the very nature of studenthood, one must wait to learn. Yet, during this time of waiting, one must apply oneself. One must seek a curriculum of preparation, and one must become very observant of others." [4]

"Learning not to judge here is very important. So are learning observation, learning stillness of mind, learning to listen within yourself as you listen to others, learning to be patient, learning to forego self-comforting ideas, learning to forego early conclusions while you wait for a greater realization, learning to live without so many self-definitions and learning to accept your problems and to work with them constructively. This involves giving other people the benefit of the doubt and learning to understand why they are reacting the way they are, for many people are poorly equipped to be a part of a world that is emerging into the Greater Community." [3]

"Students of Knowledge become attentive and observant within and without. They learn this because it is necessary. They seek a deeper direction, and they must patiently wait for this to emerge. In fact, it is often the waiting that is most important for their development. If you can learn to wait, you can learn to trust. If you can learn to trust, you can learn to observe. If you can learn to observe, you can learn to recognize things. This is a very important part of your education." [4]

"When you learn stillness, you learn to act with great determination, and you also learn to wait for what stimulates great determination."[5]

Potential

“Many people in the world have not been able to give themselves to the religious traditions of humanity because there is something in them that has told them to wait. Perhaps they justify this based upon the limitations or the difficulties existing within certain traditions. But that is not really the issue, you see, for they are really meant for something else, and they have had to wait for the Revelation. It is not merely that their tradition is inadequate in some way. The truth is they are meant for something else because of their nature and their design, because of their purpose, because of destiny.”[6]

"Greater possibilities" ... "are waiting for you."[7]

"Your purpose in life is waiting to be discovered once you have reached a state of maturity." [8]

"Hidden deep within you is your calling in life, waiting to be activated, waiting until all the internal and external conditions are ready for it to emerge and express itself."[9]

"There are genuine relationships waiting for you in life, waiting for you to be ready and desirous of them, but you must have the capability and the desire."[10]

"Allow the changing focus and direction of your life to illustrate to you the greater value that is awaiting you."[7]

"indeed, you can know if they are an appropriate prospect for relationship for you. How can you know this? Because Knowledge within you will say 'yes' or 'no.' If Knowledge does not say 'yes,' then it is 'no.' 'No' can mean that this person is not appropriate, or it can mean that you must wait and not become engaged."[11]

Languishing in Time

"Do you wonder why people let situations become intolerable? That is a very marked tendency in human beings, both individually and collectively. People wait until the situation is dire because then everyone must go into action."[8]

"Often people become very lazy here because they are waiting for something to change them. Then if it goes wrong, they have someone else to blame.“Hey, I was just there and it changed. Don’t blame me!” But to take full responsibility means that you are cooperating with life in bringing about the necessary adjustments as you proceed."[12]

Knowledge Makes One Wait

"Fundamental questions are answered by an experience—an experience that at the very outset can be quite painful, as it is painful at times to touch upon something that has been waiting for you for oh so long. But the pain of this is quickly replaced by greater insight and a realignment within yourself once you have hit upon an essential truth. These experiences are the result of moments of introspection often begun by grave disappointment and carried out in times of reappraisal."[13]

"If you feel a spiritual emergence arising within you that you must respond to, you will have to change your relationship with your family. You cannot undergo this change and not have relationships around you adjust themselves to it. You must do it and not wait for someone else to do it for you."[12]

"Hesitation is unpleasant if it is prolonged, but Knowledge waits very patiently. Believe me, when I say you must wait for Knowledge, think how much Knowledge must wait for you! But because Knowledge is not trying to become anything, it can afford to wait."[14]

"Because people have difficulty waiting for anything, they will attempt to fulfill themselves with whatever is available now.You as a race are not well trained to wait for anything, particularly in this nation where instant success is the motto. But when you begin to tire of this constant attempt to fulfill your life, you will begin to open.This is part of the preparation for Knowledge, for without your constant attempt to manage and control your destiny, something else begins to emerge within you."[15]

The Wait After Life

"You had to wait a long time to come here. You cannot just enter the world at will, you know. You have to wait in line."[16]

"Your Teachers represent the future because they are what will be awaiting you when you leave this world."[15]

"This life is preparation, like childhood is preparation for adulthood. Adulthood is preparation for your Spiritual Family, who will be waiting for you when you arrive and pass through the thin membrane that separates these two realms of existence."[17]

"When you leave this world, you go back to your Home and you meet your group. You look and you ask, “Well, did I give it all? Are my bags empty? Did I deliver everything?” If your bags are not empty, you will want to come back. No one will order you back. You will say,“My God! Why did I not see it? It is so obvious to me now! I am Home. It is so obvious! Why was I such a miserable person? I was only there for a few years, yes? It seems like yesterday that I was with you all. Well, I want to go back.When can I do it?” And you find out you have to wait a little while." [18]

"But when you leave the classroom after eighty years, more or less, you go home to your 'parents,' who are your Spiritual Family. It was just a very long day in class, that’s all—so long, in fact, that it allowed you to concentrate on the classroom entirely." ... "If you were in a classroom for eighty years and you were thinking about home, you would have a hard time being in the classroom.'Can’t wait to get home!' You can remember how it was when you were a little kid, waiting for the time to come around when school was out. Couldn’t wait, watching the clock, couldn’t hear the teacher. Just waiting for the time to pass."[19]

Metaphors

"You are waiting for that spark of truth that runs like a current through humanity, and you are opening yourself so that it may run through you, so that you may conduct it and be a terminal for its expression." [20]

"Our teaching is very simple. It takes time, it has many steps, but it is very unified. You can always come back to it. It is like an old friend who waits for you while you stop by the side of the road to ponder and think and imagine and dream.Then you come back and say,“Okay, let’s go on together.” And you go on together." [14]

"I have learned in life, as you are learning now, how to distinguish between action and contemplation. There is a time to act. And there is a time to not act but to be alert, like a hunter who must wait oh so long for the right moment to act.This ability to stalk your prey, whether it be an animal on the hunt or Knowledge within yourself, is something that has been lost in your society to a great extent."[21]

"If we but give you the first piece of the puzzle, will you run around saying it is the answer, when it is but the first piece? And can you wait patiently while hundreds of pieces are given to you, patiently fitting them together in sequence?"[22]

"Take on the big problem of your life, do not neglect the little ones and you will open doors that are waiting for you, for they are open already." [23]

"One of the most important aspects of healing things in the world, beyond yourself, is leaving things alone. Ninety percent of the time you leave things alone, like someone cultivating a garden. Ninety percent of the time you leave things alone.Ten percent of the time you carry out a very specific action that makes everything else possible. By leaving things alone, I am not saying you neglect things because the good gardener never neglects the garden, but he or she understands that there is a greater process that actually produces and brings about the results in a predictable manner." ..." Knowledge waits for the moment and then gives the remedy."[24]

References

  1. The Requirements of the Messenger (March 12, 2013)
  2. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 9: Honesty
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 18: Compassion
  4. 4.0 4.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 20: Learning from Others
  5. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 29: Faith & Fear
  6. ”The Time Of Revelation”,Destiny
  7. 7.0 7.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 3:Pleasure
  8. 8.0 8.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 32: Achievement & Relationship
  9. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 20: Inner Listening
  10. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 30: Perception
  11. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 6: Discernment
  12. 12.0 12.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 33: Provoking Change
  13. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 1: Ambition
  14. 14.0 14.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 21: Enduring Happiness
  15. 15.0 15.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 10: Service in the World
  16. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 6: Health
  17. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 13: Spiritual Community
  18. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 15 Giving I
  19. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 18: Higher Education
  20. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 23: Becoming Wise
  21. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 26: Stillness
  22. Secrets of Heaven, Secret 116
  23. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 8: Solving Problems
  24. Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 31: Healing

See Also

Abiding

Do not wait

Impatience

Further Study

  • Steps to Knowledge, between Steps 9 & 10: Why am I doing this anyway?
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 95: How can I possibly fulfill myself?
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 101: The world needs me, but I will wait.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 137: I will accept the mystery of my life.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 142: I will be consistent today.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 167: With Knowledge I am free in the world.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 177: I will learn to be honest today.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 207: I forgive those whom I think have hurt me.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 240: Small ideas cannot fulfill my need for Knowledge.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 250: I will not hold myself apart today.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 265: There is a greater freedom awaiting me.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 274: I seek freedom from ambivalence today.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 275: Today I seek freedom from uncertainty.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 292: How can I be angry with the world when it only serves me?
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 321: The world is awaiting my contribution.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 328: Today I will honor those who have given to me.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 331: What is small expresses that which is great.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 358: I wish to be at home in the world.
  • Steps to Knowledge, Step 365: I am committed to learn to learn. I am committed to give what I am meant to give. I am committed because I am part of life. I am part of life because I am one with Knowledge.