Abiding
"How different Knowledge is, which needs neither force nor violence, which needs neither deception nor dominance. Its persuasion is that it is entirely natural to you. It is the absolute essence of everything that is meaningful to you. It comes silently. It lives within you. It awaits the moment when you can begin to accept it. It offers itself at moments of great decision. It comforts you with its silence and reassurance. It abides with you. As you learn to abide with it, come to it, seek it out and learn how to receive it, respond to it and use it, then you become its recipient. Others will shrink away, fearful and doubtful, but you will come forward because Knowledge in you brings you to Knowledge in life. That which is true in you brings you to that which is true in life. The essence of you comes to the essence of life, for there is not only Knowledge within you, there is Knowledge within everything." [1]
Knowledge abides with you
"You have Knowledge within you, waiting to be discovered."[2]
"Knowledge only speaks at certain times. It is waiting for the moments of readiness, when the conditions are right, the audience is right and the need is there."[3]
"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."[4]
"Take heart. Knowledge has not left you. It has not gone away. You cannot rid yourself of it, and it will never leave you. It is waiting to be discovered, a living reality within you that confirms your meaning and purpose for coming into the world at this time. It confirms your relationship with your Spiritual Family beyond the world, and it confirms your relationship with the world, for you have come to the world to give. What difference does it make if you are important or not as long as your mission in life can be furthered and accomplished? When you leave this life and return to your Spiritual Family, you will not be interested at all in what you became in the world or what people thought of you there. The only thing that will concern you is whether you accomplished your task or not. That is all that matters. And your task will always involve the reclamation of relationships and the expression of Knowledge—no matter what your form of expression or the avenue of life that you participate in." [5]
But where are you
"The only difficulty is when your Knowledge is in conflict with what you want. Then Knowledge must wait."[6]
"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."[7]
Steps to Knowledge quotes on abiding
Greatness "waits to be discovered within you, a greatness that will give you true equality in life and in time will reveal what you have come here specifically to do."[8]
"True assistance is available to you."[9]
"FREEDOM ABIDES WITHIN YOU, waiting to be born within you, waiting to be claimed and accepted, waiting to be lived and applied and waiting to be honored and followed."[10]
"A Greater Will exists within you that wishes to express itself."[11]
Teachers abide
"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."[12]
"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."[13]
"The Teachers have a very difficult job, very difficult. That is why they have so few students. They must contribute to a very insane situation and set of circumstances. They must do this single-mindedly, with great patience and compassion. They must allow their beloved students to create calamity after calamity. They do not promote this, yet if that is the students’ ambition, 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."[14]
References
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community,, Book Two, Chapter 27: Self-Doubt
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book One, Chapter 35: Achieving Peace
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2, Chapter 7: Discretion
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book Two, Chapter 3: Pleasure
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book Two, Chapter 32: Pride
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book One, Chapter 21: Enduring Happiness
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community,, Book Two, Chapter 2: Possessions
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 34: I am a beginning student of Knowledge.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 48: True instruction is available to me.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 57: Freedom is with me.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 96: God’s Will is for me to be unburdened.
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community,, Book One, Chapter 27: Disappointment
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book One, Chapter 32: Achievementp
- ↑ Secrets of Heaven, Secret 281
See Also
Further study
- Steps to Knowledge, Step 74: Peace abides with me today.