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"Ultimately, you will need to transcend your ideas about Spiritual Family in order to experience your own Spiritual Family."
 
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==The entire human family==
 
==The entire human family==
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"From a wholesome loving family to the work of people united in supporting the world's evolution and development, meaningful relationships are the very essence of humanity’s success."
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"Human beings must learn to live for the welfare of their human family, not simply their blood family, but for their society and world."
 
"Human beings must learn to live for the welfare of their human family, not simply their blood family, but for their society and world."
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<ref name="wisdom2">''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume Two''</ref>
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"If the mind of the world, the collective mind of the people, misuses the body of the world, the world’s ability to support the human family will be eroded, spoiled and eventually destroyed. If you look upon people's activity in the environment, you will see this being demonstrated in many ways."
 
"If the mind of the world, the collective mind of the people, misuses the body of the world, the world’s ability to support the human family will be eroded, spoiled and eventually destroyed. If you look upon people's activity in the environment, you will see this being demonstrated in many ways."
 
<ref>''[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
 
<ref>''[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
  
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==A human family and a Spiritual Family==
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==A human family and a [[Spiritual Family]]==
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"You have a human family that raises you in the world, but you have a [[Spiritual Family]] that raises you in life. This Family is not all humankind. You are not entirely human. You belong to a Greater Reality. Being a human isn’t enough. You are not entirely a human being. When you have this perspective, you will know how to serve people because you will not be trapped in their identity dilemma."
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<ref>''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 3</ref>
  
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"You have a human family that raises you in the world, but you have a Spiritual Family that raises you in life. This Family is not all humankind. You are not entirely human. You belong to a Greater Reality. Being a human isn’t enough. You are not entirely a human being. When you have this perspective, you will know how to serve people because you will not be trapped in their identity dilemma."
 
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<ref name="wisdom">''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]]'' Volume One</ref>
 
  
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"In life thus far you have had a physical family, a family of the world that has made it possible for you to be born, to be raised and to be educated in the ways of the world. Likewise, 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… Therefore, you have a physical family, a worldly family, that has raised you from birth and has educated you to prepare you to be in life. Maybe they did not do such a good job, but that is beside the point. Then you have a [[Spiritual Family]] into which you are born in a new world, and you develop and you become educated so that you are a spiritual presence in life."
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<ref>''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 32</ref>
  
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"In life thus far you have had a physical family, a family of the world that has made it possible for you to be born, to be raised and to be educated in the ways of the world. Likewise, 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…Therefore, you have a physical family, a worldly family, that has raised you from birth and has educated you to prepare you to be in life. Maybe they did not do such a good job, but that is beside the point. Then you have a Spiritual Family into which you are born in a new world, and you develop and you become educated so that you are a spiritual presence in life."
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"You prepare for your Spiritual Family through genuine marriage in the world.... [marriage to] another to create a family, to serve a community or both."
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<ref name="rhp12">''[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]]'', Chapter 12</ref>
  
 
===Primary relationships in life===
 
===Primary relationships in life===
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====Marriage and family====
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"Often people say, 'All I want is a true partner in life, a true relationship. I want to be married. I want to have a family. That is all I want.' And We say, 'Well, that is very good. Go spend time with people who have that and ask yourself if you want to have their level of satisfaction.' We do not want to deprive people of what they want. After all, relationship is very important. But having a marriage or family does not guarantee success."
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<ref>''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 24</ref>
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"Often people say, 'All I want is a true partner in life, a true relationship. I want to be married. I want to have a family. That is all I want.' And We say, 'Well, that is very good. Go spend time with people who have that and ask yourself if you want to have their level of satisfaction.' We do not want to deprive people of what they want. After all, relationship is very important. But having a marriage or family does not guarantee success."
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"If marriage is based merely on personal attraction, it will run dry. It
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must yield something greater and produce community—either children or a
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circle of people, a family. That is what marriage is for; it is for community."
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<ref name="wgcI13">''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 13</ref>
  
  
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"Unfortunately, living in their personal minds, people believe very intently that the only opportunity to experience profound relationship is in romance or in family. We wish to broaden the context of relationship because many of you will not have partnership in this life in that way. Your partnership will be in a different form. Unless you can entertain this possibility, you will strive for the impossible and spend your life attempting to accomplish something that is not intended for you."
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"People believe ... that the only opportunity to experience profound relationship is in romance or in family. We wish to broaden the context of relationship because many of you will not have partnership in this life in that way. Your partnership will be in a different form. Unless you can entertain this possibility, you will strive for the impossible and spend your life attempting to accomplish something that is not intended for you."
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<ref name="wgcI10">''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 10</ref>
  
 
====Crossing thresholds in context of family====
 
====Crossing thresholds in context of family====
  
 
"Your first challenge in change will be with yourself. That is the most important. It will be with yourself and in your primary relationships: your partner, your loved ones, your family and so forth. If you feel a spiritual emergence arising that you must respond to, you will have to change your relationship with your family. You cannot change and have relationships around you not adjust according to that change. You must do it, not wait for someone to do it for you."
 
"Your first challenge in change will be with yourself. That is the most important. It will be with yourself and in your primary relationships: your partner, your loved ones, your family and so forth. If you feel a spiritual emergence arising that you must respond to, you will have to change your relationship with your family. You cannot change and have relationships around you not adjust according to that change. You must do it, not wait for someone to do it for you."
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<ref name="wisdom2">''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]]'' Volume Two</ref>
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<ref>''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 33</ref>
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===Spiritual Family===
 
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"Your Spiritual Family is comprised of both the relationships that you have fully reclaimed thus far in your overall evolution in physical life and those relationships you are meant to reclaim now and in the future. Your Spiritual Family is your learning group. This means that you are not only an individual, you are also part of a group."
 
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<ref name="rhp5">''[[Relationships & Higher Purpose]]'', Chapter 5</ref>
 
  
  
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"Your Spiritual Family is with you now. Those who are not in the physical reality are with you now and you can experience their presence. This will be your experience of spiritual presence. Your Inner Teachers will help to cultivate and nourish these growing associations so that your experience of spiritual presence and your ability to experience affinity with other people may grow."
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<ref>''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 15</ref>
  
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"You have come into the world to serve your Spiritual Family. Some members of your Spiritual Family are in this world at this time, some of them are in other worlds and some of them are not in physical reality at all. You have come into the world for your own advancement and for the advancement of your group. As your group advances and expands, it will be able to join with other groups, and then, like rivers joining with one another into greater and greater flowing bodies of water, you will find your way home to God, which is the source and destiny of all relationships."
 
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"You have known each other from before. Yet your experience of one another is not born of past life experience, but of creation beyond the physical reality entirely. You have had past life experiences with many individuals who are not part of your Spiritual Family. Your Spiritual Family is a small group. Yet you have had past life experiences with thousands and thousands of individuals."
 
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"Be glad that you are part of a Spiritual Family, for this gives you the discernment necessary to seek out those individuals with whom you must learn and with whom you are meant to become engaged."
 
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Revision as of 05:34, 24 January 2012

The entire human family

"From a wholesome loving family to the work of people united in supporting the world's evolution and development, meaningful relationships are the very essence of humanity’s success." [1]


"Human beings must learn to live for the welfare of their human family, not simply their blood family, but for their society and world." [2]

"If the mind of the world, the collective mind of the people, misuses the body of the world, the world’s ability to support the human family will be eroded, spoiled and eventually destroyed. If you look upon people's activity in the environment, you will see this being demonstrated in many ways." [3]

A human family and a Spiritual Family

"You have a human family that raises you in the world, but you have a Spiritual Family that raises you in life. This Family is not all humankind. You are not entirely human. You belong to a Greater Reality. Being a human isn’t enough. You are not entirely a human being. When you have this perspective, you will know how to serve people because you will not be trapped in their identity dilemma." [4]


"In life thus far you have had a physical family, a family of the world that has made it possible for you to be born, to be raised and to be educated in the ways of the world. Likewise, 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… Therefore, you have a physical family, a worldly family, that has raised you from birth and has educated you to prepare you to be in life. Maybe they did not do such a good job, but that is beside the point. Then you have a Spiritual Family into which you are born in a new world, and you develop and you become educated so that you are a spiritual presence in life." [5]


"You prepare for your Spiritual Family through genuine marriage in the world.... [marriage to] another to create a family, to serve a community or both." [1]

Primary relationships in life

Marriage and family

"Often people say, 'All I want is a true partner in life, a true relationship. I want to be married. I want to have a family. That is all I want.' And We say, 'Well, that is very good. Go spend time with people who have that and ask yourself if you want to have their level of satisfaction.' We do not want to deprive people of what they want. After all, relationship is very important. But having a marriage or family does not guarantee success." [6]


"If marriage is based merely on personal attraction, it will run dry. It must yield something greater and produce community—either children or a circle of people, a family. That is what marriage is for; it is for community." [7]


"People believe ... that the only opportunity to experience profound relationship is in romance or in family. We wish to broaden the context of relationship because many of you will not have partnership in this life in that way. Your partnership will be in a different form. Unless you can entertain this possibility, you will strive for the impossible and spend your life attempting to accomplish something that is not intended for you." [8]

Crossing thresholds in context of family

"Your first challenge in change will be with yourself. That is the most important. It will be with yourself and in your primary relationships: your partner, your loved ones, your family and so forth. If you feel a spiritual emergence arising that you must respond to, you will have to change your relationship with your family. You cannot change and have relationships around you not adjust according to that change. You must do it, not wait for someone to do it for you." [9]


Spiritual Family

"Each of you has come from your Spiritual Family into this world to play your part in this era of human evolution." [10]


"We use the word “family” because family is the closest approximation that you have in this life to intrinsic relationship." [7]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 12
  2. ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume Two
  3. ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 4
  4. ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 3
  5. ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 32
  6. ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 24
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 13
  8. ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 10
  9. ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 33
  10. ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 15

Further study

See also

Raising Children

Relationships

Marriage

Love

Spiritual Family

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