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-“Alone you can do nothing, for nothing in life is done alone.”
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-<ref name="s2k">Steps to Knowledge, Step 249</ref>
-“Therefore, we emphasize the value of your relationships to you who now seek to reclaim Knowledge. These relationships must be imbued with the Knowledge that you are reclaiming. Then they will have the stability, the efficacy and the grace that your Knowledge contains for you. For only relationships based upon Knowledge can carry the Wisdom that Knowledge will exert within the world. Relationships based upon personal attraction or personal fantasy do not have the foundation to carry Knowledge and will fail abruptly in the presence of the demands and requirements of a true life.”
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-“The greatest evidence of a person’s self-understanding is the nature and the quality of the relationships that they establish around themselves.”
-<ref>''[[Steps to Knowledge]] Continuation Training'', Step 41</ref>
-“We say cultivate  Knowledge and  Knowledge will bring to you all relationships you truly need. Those you do not truly need will find no purpose there, and so your life will not be hindered and held back by inappropriate engagements.”
-<ref>''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume One'', Chapter 13</ref>
-"You have no neutral relationships, for every one of them is either helping you or hindering you and holding you back. You are either gaining strength or losing strength to every one of these relationships."
-<ref>The Deep Evaluation, June 3, 2008</ref>
-"In living in the world, there are Four Pillars of life. These are all part of your foundation building. They are the pillars of relationships, health, work and spiritual development. These are the cornerstones of your foundation in life."
-<ref name="ltwk2">''[[Living the Way of Knowledge]]'', Chapter 2</ref>
-“It is what you do together that determines the nature and purpose of relationship. That is why human romance is such an empty promise, for if you cannot do anything together, you have no basis for being together. The initial attraction turns cold and dark, and the desire and the embellished feelings turn ashen and become bitter and resentful.”
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-"If you cannot engage with God, how are you gong to really engage with anyone else? If you cannot experience affinity with the Power and the Presence of God, how are you going to experience affinity with anyone else? You may become intoxicated, falling in love temporarily with someone. You may be delighted with another's presence, but will you be able to experience true affinity with them? If you do not trust God, how will you trust anyone else?"
-<ref>God's Power and Presence in the World, April 23, 2011</ref>
-“Relationship is the essence of your environment, the environment in which you live. What you decide to do in your relationships will determine the kind of life you will have and the kind of problems you will have to solve.”
-<ref name="wgcII">''[[Wisdom from The Greater Community]] Volume Two'', Chapter 6</ref>
-“And the person who will do you the most harm could well be someone who is totally enchanting to you and who seems to fit the absolute picture of what you are trying to acquire for yourself.”
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-“Your progress here can only truly be thwarted by your misapplication in relationships.”
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-“Knowledge is the foundation for your ability to be in relationship with anyone or anything. Without Knowledge, people are in relationship only to gain advantage. They use others and they use life to gain advantage or to provide protection. They barter with their affections. They negotiate with their feelings. Here relationship is a form of commerce rather than a form of union. Prices are paid. Services are rendered. Can this be the real meaning of relationship?”
-<ref>The Meaning of Christmas</ref>
-"In the Greater Community, there are no powerful individuals. There are only powerful relationships.”
-<ref>''[[Preparing for the Greater Community]]'', Chapter 6</ref>
-“Knowledge will not support a wrong decision in a relationship, and Knowledge will not go with you into that relationship. If you commit yourself prematurely, you pull yourself away from Knowledge. You can still come back to Knowledge, but it will not go along with you. It will become mute and silent, patiently waiting once again while you live out another long and perilous error in life.”
-<ref name="ltwok3">''[[Living The Way of Knowledge]]'', Chapter 3</ref>
-“Here people try to offset their sense of insecurity by securing partnerships with others. As a result, they form relationships based upon weakness and not upon strength.”
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-“Wrong decisions in relationships have disabled and disarmed many a promising person in the world. Many have lost their way and many have lost their chance in life as a result of making decisions here without Knowledge.”
-<ref name="ltwok3"/>
-“To develop the Pillar of relationship means to recognize, to discern and to be prepared to participate in the essential relationships that are meant for you.”
-<ref name="ltwok3"/>
-“For it is what you do together that determines the nature and purpose of your relationship.”
-<ref name="ltwok3"/>
-“Your first and primary relationship is with Knowledge. Can your relationships with others support this?”
-<ref name="ltwok3"/>
-"Relationship is when two or more people come together to fulfill an inner and an outer need."
-<ref>''[[Relationships and Higher Purpose]]'', chapter 12</ref>
-“Falling in love may be a wonderful dream, but it does not assure a real relationship at all. A real relationship is built upon compatibility, shared values and a commensurate level of strength and involvement in the world. Here if a strong person unites with a weak person, the strong person will become weaker. That is why if you want to become strong, you must be with someone who is strong.”
-<ref>The New Message for Young People, January 29, 2009</ref>
-“It is Knowledge that will bring the great relationships to you. It is not your prancing around, making a fool of yourself and degrading yourself in every conceivable way to try to attract the attention and the approval of some person.”
-<ref>Listening for Knowledge, September 24, 2009</ref>
-“God is preparing you for the right relationships, the ones that will make all the difference, the ones that will bring forth the power of Knowledge within yourself, the ones that will encourage you to discover your deeper nature and with it your greater purpose for being in the world.”
-<ref name="lar">Love and Relationships, April 21, 2011</ref>
-“Who you are with will determine what you can know and your ability to follow what you know.”
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-“You must become the person you are meant to be before you can be in a relationship successfully, a deep harmonious relationship, a greater partnership. You bring to that what you have discovered within yourself.”
-<ref name="lar"/>
-“You must have a sense of who you are and where you are going in life based upon Knowledge before you can know who to be with and how to be with them.”
-<ref name="lar"/>
-==See also==
-[[Relationship]]
-[[Relationships of Higher Purpose]]
-==References==
-<references/>
-[[category:relationship]]

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