토론:공헌
지시문
"It is very important to understand contribution in your life because the contribution that you are really making is for the generations to come, and you cannot see that. You can say, 'I am not making a contribution in my life. I do not see the results.' Yet your true contribution is to lay the foundation for the possibility for life in the future, not only physically but for the promise of redemption." [1]
"You must work with God, using your intellect and your abilities, for these will all be needed to build a new and greater life in the world. Here there is no running away into spiritual practice, retreating endlessly from the world, for God is seeking to bring you into the world as a contributor to life. But only God knows the nature of your true contribution, the real gifts that you were sent into the world to give. It is not what you think or assume to be true at this moment." [2]
가치
"If you are feeding people or helping to restore the environment or working for social justice or sending aid and relief to people in a poor country—all these things are strengthening the reality and power of Knowledge in the world." [3]
목적
“Here you cannot be a victim of the world or a victim of change, for you were designed and meant to be a contributor—a person who gives into life situations and who is not overtaken or destroyed by them.” [4]
비유
“Like a surgeon in surgery, you can contribute to the world, for that is your purpose in coming—without concern for yourself or concern for the world. If you become concerned for the world, you will become frightened and angry, and this fear and anger can overtake you at any time.” [5]
“You are not here to make separation work. You are not here to perfect the world. You are here to contribute something to the well-being of people, to the well-being of life and to plant seeds for the future of humanity. A seed is a very tiny thing. It does not look like it has any potency at all. You hold a little seed in your hand, and you say, 'Well, what can this do?' But the seed can grow a great tree. Seeds can grow food. Those little tiny things in your hand look like they have no power, but they are really the source of future benefit.” [6]
각주
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 16: Giving II
- ↑ The Pure Revelation
- ↑ Relationships and the Mental Environment, Chapter 9 {February 5, 2007)
- ↑ Fear and Fearlessness, (January 9, 2009)
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 19: Fulfillment
- ↑ The First Commitment (September 25, 2008)