Wait

"For who can wait? Can you wait, really wait for the time, for the moment?"

Abiding

"You have Knowledge within you, waiting to be discovered."

"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."

"Your Teachers stand by while you go through everything. Most of it is quite boring to them, but they are waiting for the opportunity, and they are providing you with the quality of love and the orientation that you will never find in the world."

"Knowledge knows what you need and what you don’t need. If you can open yourself to Knowledge, wait for Knowledge and abide with Knowledge, then you will have an opportunity to know where to draw the line for yourself."

"At times the way seems lonely and uncertain, but something in you is guiding you forward. Here you must follow a greater calling, a calling you cannot understand, a calling you have not yet learned to appreciate, a calling whose trials and tribulations, though seemingly large in the moment, are in fact small compared to the greater rewards awaiting you."

"When you learn stillness, you learn to act with great determination, and you also learn to wait for what stimulates great determination."

"The only difficulty is when your Knowledge is in conflict with what you want. Then Knowledge must wait."

"The Teachers have a very difficult job, very difficult. That is why they have so few students. They must contribute to a very insane situation and set of circumstances. They must do this single-mindedly, with great patience and compassion. They must allow their beloved students to create calamity after calamity. They do not promote this, yet if that is the students’ ambition, who can prevent them? Therefore, we discourage things that are obviously detrimental, yet we do not control or manipulate our students. That is not our function. Our true ability and resources are only waiting for others to call upon them. For this, we may have to wait a long time, a very long time."

Potential

"Greater possibilities ... are waiting for you."

"Your purpose in life is waiting to be discovered once you have reached a state of maturity."

"Hidden deep within you is your calling in life, waiting to be activated, waiting until all the internal and external conditions are ready for it to emerge and express itself."

"There are genuine relationships waiting for you in life, waiting for you to be ready and desirous of them, but you must have the capability and the desire."

"Allow the changing focus and direction of your life to illustrate to you the greater value that is awaiting you."

"If we but give you the first piece of the puzzle, will you run around saying it is the answer, when it is but the first piece? And can you wait patiently while hundreds of pieces are given to you, patiently fitting them together in sequence?"

Languishing in Time

"Do you wonder why people let situations become intolerable? That is a very marked tendency in human beings, both individually and collectively. People wait until the situation is dire because then everyone must go into action."

"Often people become very lazy here because they are waiting for something to change them. Then if it goes wrong, they have someone else to blame.“Hey, I was just there and it changed. Don’t blame me!” But to take full responsibility means that you are cooperating with life in bringing about the necessary adjustments as you proceed."

"Fundamental questions are answered by an experience—an experience that at the very outset can be quite painful, as it is painful at times to touch upon something that has been waiting for you for oh so long. But the pain of this is quickly replaced by greater insight and a realignment within yourself once you have hit upon an essential truth. These experiences are the result of moments of introspection often begun by grave disappointment and carried out in times of reappraisal."

"If you feel a spiritual emergence arising within you that you must respond to, you will have to change your relationship with your family. You cannot undergo this change and not have relationships around you adjust themselves to it. You must do it and not wait for someone else to do it for you."

"Hesitation is unpleasant if it is prolonged, but Knowledge waits very patiently. Believe me, when I say you must wait for Knowledge, think how much Knowledge must wait for you! But because Knowledge is not trying to become anything, it can afford to wait."

"Because people have difficulty waiting for anything, they will attempt to fulfill themselves with whatever is available now.You as a race are not well trained to wait for anything, particularly in this nation where instant success is the motto. But when you begin to tire of this constant attempt to fulfill your life, you will begin to open.This is part of the preparation for Knowledge, for without your constant attempt to manage and control your destiny, something else begins to emerge within you."

Beyond Time

"You had to wait a long time to come here. You cannot just enter the world at will, you know. You have to wait in line."

"Your Teachers represent the future because they are what will be awaiting you when you leave this world."

"This life is preparation, like childhood is preparation for adulthood. Adulthood is preparation for your Spiritual Family, who will be waiting for you when you arrive and pass through the thin membrane that separates these two realms of existence."

"When you leave this world, you go back to your Home and you meet your group. You look and you ask, “Well, did I give it all? Are my bags empty? Did I deliver everything?” If your bags are not empty, you will want to come back. No one will order you back. You will say,“My God! Why did I not see it? It is so obvious to me now! I am Home. It is so obvious! Why was I such a miserable person? I was only there for a few years, yes? It seems like yesterday that I was with you all. Well, I want to go back.When can I do it?” And you find out you have to wait a little while."

Metaphors

"Our teaching is very simple. It takes time, it has many steps, but it is very unified. You can always come back to it. It is like an old friend who waits for you while you stop by the side of the road to ponder and think and imagine and dream.Then you come back and say,“Okay, let’s go on together.” And you go on together."

"I have learned in life, as you are learning now, how to distinguish between action and contemplation. There is a time to act. And there is a time to not act but to be alert, like a hunter who must wait oh so long for the right moment to act.This ability to stalk your prey, whether it be an animal on the hunt or Knowledge within yourself, is something that has been lost in your society to a great extent."

"One of the most important aspects of healing things in the world, beyond yourself, is leaving things alone. Ninety percent of the time you leave things alone, like someone cultivating a garden. Ninety percent of the time you leave things alone.Ten percent of the time you carry out a very specific action that makes everything else possible. By leaving things alone, I am not saying you neglect things because the good gardener never neglects the garden, but he or she understands that there is a greater process that actually produces and brings about the results in a predictable manner.... Knowledge waits for the moment and then gives the remedy."

"But when you leave the classroom after eighty years, more or less, you go home to your 'parents,' who are your Spiritual Family. It was just a very long day in class, that’s all—so long, in fact, that it allowed you to concentrate on the classroom entirely.... If you were in a classroom for eighty years and you were thinking about home, you would have a hard time being in the classroom.'Can’t wait to get home!' You can remember how it was when you were a little kid, waiting for the time to come around when school was out. Couldn’t wait, watching the clock, couldn’t hear the teacher. Just waiting for the time to pass."