Talk:Grandiosity

Further occasions for "grandiosity":

[Many people] "have grandiose ideas about themselves and think that an instructor is not necessary."--Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 10: How do you prepare?

"No errors in evaluation will be made because no one will claim grandiose powers. There will be no avatars. There will be no saints."--Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 17: How does Revelation occur in Human Life?

Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 17: Mastery

'"They are individuals who are in a position to give meaning to the world. They are not grandiose, yet this meaning can flow from them."--Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume I, Chapter 23: Forgiveness

Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 27: Self-Doubt

Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume II, Chapter 34: Walking the Way of Knowledge

Relationships and Higher Purpose, Chapter 8: The Problem of Evil & the Forces of Dissonance

Relationships and Higher Purpose, Chapter 13: Maintaining Relationships

“Saving the world is grandiose and beyond our individual reach. Yet the NMG emphasizes keeping Knowledge alive in the world. This is the ultimate goal, for without this, all is lost. Each of us has this core responsibility, and we are given the power of Heaven to achieve it. Service to the world will naturally flow from this well of inspiration.”

"To be a true follower of one of the great Messengers, you must prepare yourself for your own personal revelation, which is what We speak of here today. It is not a grandiose thing, but it will be the most important experience of your life, and it will provide for you everything you seek on the outside but cannot find."

"Once you enter the wilderness, you must continue, and if you continue, you will find great companions. You will also find dangers there as well because people are not accustomed to living without definitions, and so you will see within yourself and within others the propensity to define or to project your ideas upon your new experience. Many serious mistakes are made here as a result. Here people try to extend their past life into their present life. They try to exercise the familiarity of their old ideas with the challenge of meeting new experiences. Here you see people making grandiose assumptions about the Divine and the Divine Presence and reality in their lives. Here you see people making grandiose proclamations about their abilities—calling themselves healers, calling themselves advanced practitioners, thinking that they are at the final thresholds of their learning when in reality they are beginners like you.

There are no masters in the world. "

"The mind is constantly thinking, _{constantly moving, distracting you, taking you away, and so forth. You find here that as it is doing this, you are actually within your mind, for your reference point is still in your mind, and so wherever it goes, you go. In practice, you are trying to bring yourself back to a position of objectivity and observation, but the mind takes off, and it takes you with it.} It goes here, there and everywhere. It thinks about things that are grand, and it thinks about things that are ridiculous, and it imagines all kinds of scenarios—little dramas in which you then find yourself.

"Here your role will not be grandiose. You will not be a savior or an avatar, but your service will be very important and will help to initiate Knowledge in others. For Knowledge ultimately is your greatest gift. The demonstration of Knowledge—the reality of Knowledge—is the greatest gift. You can feed people, and this will be increasingly necessary in the difficult times to come. You can help people in many, many ways. That is very important and authentic. But your greatest gift will be Knowledge. For here you are giving them a reminder that they have a connection with God, and you are demonstrating this connection yourself through your thinking and your behavior."

"Let this destiny be undefined. It will not be grandiose. Only in the rarest occasions will people garner attention from the world around them, for this brings grave misfortune.

The Greater Powers are here to prepare you and to protect you so that that which is true and real within you may emerge and become strong in the world. But at the beginning, it is a delicate little shoot in the ground, unable to withstand the harsh forces of the world. That is why it must be cultivated and cared for and protected. You cannot have other people trampling upon it with their ignorance and their foolishness and their lack of sincerity. Keep the jewel within your heart. Do not throw it out onto the street."