Difference between revisions of "Greater Community Way of Knowledge"
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| − | "If you are to become a student of a Greater Community Way of Knowledge, it will require all of your attention. Not only will you have to master and understand human Wisdom, you will have to learn Greater Community Wisdom. However, every little bit that you advance towards a Greater Community understanding will make you more effective, more capable, more gracious and more compassionate as a person." | + | "Let your understanding of yourself be flexible, for it will most assuredly change and expand as you advance in learning a Greater Community Way of Knowledge." |
| − | *[http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter10.php?bg=black ''GCS''], | + | *[http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter10.php?bg=black ''GCS''], pp. 124 |
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| + | == Short Quotes == | ||
| + | "If you are to become a student of a Greater Community Way of Knowledge, it will require all of your attention. Not only will you have to master and understand human Wisdom, you will have to learn Greater Community Wisdom. However, every little bit that you advance towards a Greater Community understanding will make you more effective, more capable, more gracious and more compassionate as a person. | ||
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| + | "The Greater Community Way of Knowledge is not something that you learn in a weekend, or a week or a month or a year. It is not something that you can fully comprehend in a book. It is far greater. | ||
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| + | "Learning The Greater Community Way of Knowledge takes you to a greater certainty within you. | ||
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| + | "[L]earning a Greater Community Way of Knowledge requires courage because you must risk your ideas. You must risk your conclusions. And you must be willing to proceed even at times when you feel very uncertain about yourself or what you are doing." | ||
| + | *[http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter10.php?bg=black ''GCS''], pp. 115, 119, 121 | ||
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| + | == Metaphors == | ||
| + | "It is like the farmer planting the fields. After each harvest, the field must be plowed under, and everything looks bleak and empty. There is no produce. There is no harvest. There is no evidence of any bounty. Everything must be replanted and started all over again so that next year there may be new and different harvests, and life may continue. This is how it will be in your education in The Greater Community Way of Knowledge. Instead of accumulation, there will be release and freedom. | ||
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| + | "To advance, you cannot stay at the bottom of the mountain and fantasize how it will be and imagine yourself going up and being at the top. The experience will always be different from imagination. The experience will be its own initiation. Stay at the bottom of the mountain and you will never know the mountain." | ||
| + | *[http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter10.php?bg=black ''GCS''], pp. 122, 124 | ||
Revision as of 02:08, 7 October 2011
Directives
"Let your understanding of yourself be flexible, for it will most assuredly change and expand as you advance in learning a Greater Community Way of Knowledge."
- GCS, pp. 124
Short Quotes
"If you are to become a student of a Greater Community Way of Knowledge, it will require all of your attention. Not only will you have to master and understand human Wisdom, you will have to learn Greater Community Wisdom. However, every little bit that you advance towards a Greater Community understanding will make you more effective, more capable, more gracious and more compassionate as a person.
"The Greater Community Way of Knowledge is not something that you learn in a weekend, or a week or a month or a year. It is not something that you can fully comprehend in a book. It is far greater.
"Learning The Greater Community Way of Knowledge takes you to a greater certainty within you.
"[L]earning a Greater Community Way of Knowledge requires courage because you must risk your ideas. You must risk your conclusions. And you must be willing to proceed even at times when you feel very uncertain about yourself or what you are doing."
- GCS, pp. 115, 119, 121
Metaphors
"It is like the farmer planting the fields. After each harvest, the field must be plowed under, and everything looks bleak and empty. There is no produce. There is no harvest. There is no evidence of any bounty. Everything must be replanted and started all over again so that next year there may be new and different harvests, and life may continue. This is how it will be in your education in The Greater Community Way of Knowledge. Instead of accumulation, there will be release and freedom.
"To advance, you cannot stay at the bottom of the mountain and fantasize how it will be and imagine yourself going up and being at the top. The experience will always be different from imagination. The experience will be its own initiation. Stay at the bottom of the mountain and you will never know the mountain."
- GCS, pp. 122, 124