Attraction

"Attractions can be very fierce."

Personal or romantic attraction

"When you are vital in life, you will attract people by your vitality and your direction. When you are moving, people see you and respond to you.You have to respond to someone who is moving because they have power.When you cease moving, you cease having power and you become like an invisible person."

"Community is a natural process of attraction because one individual will draw and gather other individuals around him or her. It will be absolutely vital for their development and expression."

"Presence will always move you because it is going somewhere. It is not fantastic images; it is experiencing the Presence of another. It is experiencing someone else’s reality directly, not only intellectually.Then you can look and see if the person who attracts you so strongly is going where you are going because you have a sense of going somewhere."

"As Knowledge emerges, everything begins to fall into place. There are not so many choices. You feel a very strong attraction to another person, the kind that sort of sweeps you away, and instead of saying, 'Oh, how wonderful! Attraction!' and being swept away and then finding out later if there is any relationship there, you stop and you see if this is Knowledge or not. You are able to check yourself."

"You can identify the physical qualities of a relationship—the behavior involved, the physical interaction, the personal habits, and so forth—but the attraction is really mysterious."

"Part of the attraction of romantic love is that it seems to return vitality to you. Temporarily. It is deeply stimulating to your life force, but it does not give expression or promise to it."

"Affinity is not yet relationship. Emotional attraction is not yet relationship. It is only potential for relationship."

"In order to differentiate between recognition and attraction, you must cultivate Knowledge, the ability and the foundation to know within your own mind."

"Because you are deeply attracted to others does not mean that you

should yield yourself to them."

"Until you are aware of your inclinations and until you are aware of the difference between Knowledge and your personal side, between your Spirit and your mind, you will simply be moved around by forces you cannot explain. And those who are more certain than you will certainly dominate you. They are more certain of what they want than you are, and you will feel dominated."

The great attraction

"When you open beyond your own thoughts, you will comprehend the Presence that calls you and attracts you."

"God is everywhere, and the attraction to God is everywhere. It cannot be escaped forever."

"God is the great attraction, and you must become the great respondent."

"God is the attraction. The Plan is the means. You feel God. God is like a great attraction pulling you. God is pulling everything in."

"God is like a great attraction without a marquee or a billboard. God is pulling you along incessantly."

The Great Call

"Because God only knows God, then God attracts you because you are part of God."

"God is moving things, like a great gravitational pull, moving things, often imperceptibly—a great attraction. You are free in this world to not follow this attraction, but you cannot eradicate it from your life."

"God’s Will is a force of attraction that organizes all individuals that are separated at all levels of existence. This force organizes everyone into perfect complements of each other and this is what brings everything back to God."

"God’s Will is a force of attraction that organizes all individuals that are separated at all levels of existence. This force organizes everyone into perfect complements of each other and this is what brings everything back to God."

How the great attraction is accomplished

"God’s service is everywhere. It moves through so many channels. Why does it do this? Because it is a natural force of attraction. It is like gravity. It finds its way through everything. It will rearrange physical reality to accommodate it, not because it is meddling, but simply because it is a natural force that attracts."

"What are Spiritual Families but groups of individuals who have joined together out of this attraction and who, in a higher state of reality, will join with other great groups, like rivers joining together on their way to the sea. It is a greater and greater association based upon natural attraction, which at higher levels becomes increasingly powerful."

"Your Spiritual Family is extremely powerful and the attraction to your Spiritual Family is stronger than the world itself."

"Perfecting your behavior to meet your standards is not the Path of Knowledge. Knowledge is not ideas. It is experience. It is relationship. It is God. God is relationship. It is the attraction between like and like, between the same and the same. That is God in a practical definition."

"Knowledge does not assault things and make them better. Knowledge simply attracts. God does not come with a sword and cut your world to pieces. God does not come and punish sinners. Sinners punish themselves relentlessly. God attracts."

"God takes everything that you have made and every reality that you have imagined and sets it all into motion with a great attraction to return Homeward.

Within your own Knowledge you have this attraction. It is the great attraction from the Creator to the Created. If you are moving with it, you will demonstrate extraordinary power and grace in this world—not because you are a special person, but simply because your Knowledge has had the opportunity to shine through."

"Your Teachers do not stay up nights thinking about how they are going to rescue you from the next error you are about to commit. They are simply with the attraction. They amplify the attraction and they express the attraction. That will undo all of your errors. God is pulling you Home. Even the overwhelming threat of this world and all of its attractions, fears and inducements that seem to dominate every moment of your life are nothing compared to the pull of God."

"As you engage with Knowledge, even as you approach it, you will lose interest in most things that are not related to it. You will not want to run around so much. You will be drawn increasingly inward, as if a great attraction is pulling you to the very center of yourself, and you will not want so much stimulation. In fact, you will begin to value quiet and peacefulness more and more and noise and aggravation less and less."

"Knowledge within you knows why you are here. It knows whom you must meet in this life. It knows where you are trying to go to and where you must go to. It does not waver. It is not indecisive. It is like a great magnetism pulling you in a certain direction.

And from where you stand at any given moment, you will not understand. 'What is this attraction? What is this pull? Why do I feel I must do this? Why must I leave here and go there? Why can’t I commit myself to this situation? Why must I venture alone when I can be with these people? Why must I say no to this opportunity and yes to this opportunity?'"

See also

Recognition

Romance

Further study

• Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 2: Relationships and Sexuality

• Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 9: Spiritual Truths