Time and energy

"You have a few years, you have your waking and sleeping time and you have a tremendous opportunity. Realizing this, you begin to care for yourself and to appropriate your energy more consciously."

Directives

"Free up your time. Free up your energy to begin to prepare for the Great Waves of change, for they will require tremendous focus and courage from you."

Take "stock of where you are now—how you spend your time, your energy, your focus, your interests."

"You need to free your time and your energy for greater things."

"You have an opportunity to bring your life into order, to establish a genuine set of priorities and to stop wasting your time, your energy and your life force on things that have no meaning, value or purpose."

"Take all of the energy that you might use currently in complaining about the world, complaining about other people, complaining about your government or complaining about life, and bring that focus and energy to bear in preparing for the Great Waves of change, in building a network of support with other people and in educating your local community."

Focus for energy

"You do not have time or energy to waste now because your time and energy are being directed towards something."

"If you are going somewhere in life, you cannot take everything with you. You can only take what you need, and this unburdens you. This gives you time, energy, mental freedom and the ability to establish new ideas and new alliances."

"If you want to achieve something tangible, then all you have to do is dedicate all your time and energy to doing that and use all of your talents and the talents of other people to help you, and you will make a strong impression in life."

"You only have so much energy in the day, so much time in the day, so much space within your mind to consider things."

"Stillness gives you the freedom to have peace, but it also gives you the potency for action. Here you are reserving your mental resources and energy. Knowledge is like the archer who exerts effort in pulling back the bow so that when the moment to release the arrow comes, it has real power and direction."

"We often recommend for students of Knowledge to simplify their lives so that they can draw on greater resources of energy and concentration and have time to experience some peace."

Lost time and energy

"The world is a real force and will captivate you completely, leaving little time or energy for other things."

"Most people cannot go very far because of oppressive circumstances. Political oppression, extreme poverty, deaden the spirit, deaden the soul. They are struggling to have the simple and basic things of life, and this occupies all of their time and energy."

Time and energy for problem solving

"If your life is full of things that have no usefulness or purpose, then they are taking time and energy from you to a certain degree."

"When you concentrate your mind, you become free of the many little preoccupations that require great amounts of energy but provide little value. You become free of the distractions of the world because you do not have time for them, and you do not choose to devote your energy to them."

"People only have so much time and energy for problem solving. If that time and energy is devoted to little things, it will be used up. If it is devoted to greater things, the little things will get resolved in the process. Little problems require little amounts of energy, and bigger problems require larger amounts of energy. By solving bigger problems, you will feel valued because you are doing something important."

"You will become a translator as you advance as a student of Knowledge, and the translation will happen through you naturally. It is as if a greater set of instincts were now activated and have come into play. Nothing artificial will be imposed. Only temporary restraints will be needed in order to enable you to focus your time and energy and to avoid those things that belittle you and weaken you in the process."

"The things that are valuable in your life have taken time and consistent energy. Your valuable relationships, your children, your careers, your deeper interests are all results of things that have been developed and cultivated over time. Settling down and taking the journey without all kinds of outrageous expectations of yourself and of life is part of the balancing that will enable a real foundation to be established—not something that is fleeting and flimsy and easily altered by circumstances."

"Does it not take more effort and energy to maintain confusion and ambivalence than it does to dedicate yourself to something?"

"What brings you closer to Knowledge is eliminating other possibilities that are attractive. You can recognize the truth of these possibilities through careful and objective observation. You do not in most cases have to go live out the reality of these things, which will take up so much of your time, energy and resources."

See also

Concentration

Condemnation

Investment

Great Waves of Change practices

Man and woman of Knowledge

Outset

Quotes about energy

Quotes About Money

Preparation

Resources

The Blessing

Further study

• The Great Waves of Change, Chapter 5: The Deep Evaluation

• Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 10: How do you prepare?

• The Great Waves of Change, Chapter 12: Your Purpose and Destiny in a Changing World

• Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 28: Using Power for Good

• Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2, Chapter 3: Pleasure

• Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2, Chapter 8: Solving Problems

• The Bridge to a New Life: New Message for Young People