Difference between revisions of "Universal truths"
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<ref name="wgcI9>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1 ''Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One''], Chapter 9: Spiritual Truths</ref> | <ref name="wgcI9>[http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-5/wisdom-greater-community-volume-1 ''Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One''], Chapter 9: Spiritual Truths</ref> | ||
| − | "Knowledge in yourself and Knowledge in others . | + | "Knowledge in yourself and Knowledge in others. This is the truth that permeates all manifest life and holds true throughout the universe in all dimensions and realities." <ref>''Greater Community Spirituality'', [http://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-2/greater-community-spirituality/what-is-steps-to-knowledge Chapter 24: What is Steps to Knowledge?]</ref> |
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"How can you understand yourself except in the context of contribution to others? Alone you can do nothing. Alone you have no meaning.This is because you are not alone.This will be viewed as a burden and as a threat until you realize the great meaning that it has and the gift that it really is. It is the salvation of your life.When life reclaims you, you reclaim life and receive all of its rewards, which far exceed anything that you could give yourself.The value of your life is consummated and fully demonstrated through your contribution to others because until contribution exists, you can only partially realize yourself—your value, your purpose, your meaning and your direction." | "How can you understand yourself except in the context of contribution to others? Alone you can do nothing. Alone you have no meaning.This is because you are not alone.This will be viewed as a burden and as a threat until you realize the great meaning that it has and the gift that it really is. It is the salvation of your life.When life reclaims you, you reclaim life and receive all of its rewards, which far exceed anything that you could give yourself.The value of your life is consummated and fully demonstrated through your contribution to others because until contribution exists, you can only partially realize yourself—your value, your purpose, your meaning and your direction." | ||
| − | <ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [http://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step33-I-have-a-mission-in-my-life-to-fulfill.htm Step 53: I have a mission in my life to fulfill. | + | <ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [http://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step33-I-have-a-mission-in-my-life-to-fulfill.htm Step 53: I have a mission in my life to fulfill.]</ref> |
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true because nothing, either real or imagined, can be done without relationship." <ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 8: The Problem of Evil & the Forces of Dissonance</ref> | true because nothing, either real or imagined, can be done without relationship." <ref>''Relationships & Higher Purpose'', Chapter 8: The Problem of Evil & the Forces of Dissonance</ref> | ||
| − | "[The source of] your judgments of yourself and the world.... | + | "[The source of] your judgments of yourself and the world." ... " is fear, for you have only been trying to comfort yourself with your judgments, to provide a false security, stability and identity which you feel you are lacking." ... "Only from a place of self-love can you offer correction to yourself and to others." |
<ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [http://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step151-I-will-not-use-fear-to-support-my-judgments.htm Step 151]</ref> | <ref>''Steps to Knowledge'', [http://stepstoknowledge.com/steps/Step151-I-will-not-use-fear-to-support-my-judgments.htm Step 151]</ref> | ||
Revision as of 18:45, 28 December 2018
"So, the first Spiritual Truth is that there is no absolute truth here." [1]
"Knowledge in yourself and Knowledge in others. This is the truth that permeates all manifest life and holds true throughout the universe in all dimensions and realities." [2]
Understanding Follows Participation
"Trust comes before understanding, always. Participation comes before trust, always."[3]
Freedom and Necessity
"Whatever form the desire for freedom takes, it is universal, both within this world and within the Greater Community of worlds in the Universe around you." [4]
"Your evolution has always been towards greater unity and cooperation." [5]
"Indiscretion is always exploited in nature. It always makes one vulnerable in nature, and the universe is a natural environment, fundamentally." [5]
How to Advance
"Surely, if you think of any skill that you value, you realize that you will need instruction; you will need some kind of curriculum; you will need help from others. And you will need many examples.This is universally true and has so many applications." [6]
What is the World?
"In a greater context, the world is a place where you have come to serve, to give and to reunite with those whom you are destined to meet, to know and to participate with. This definition, though universally true, is a truth that is not accessible to many human beings at this stage of development, for they are much too focused on survival and gratification to be able to see its importance.However, even as you grasp this idea and begin to experience it within your own range of relationships and understanding, it opens up a whole new panorama, a greater vista where things can be seen and known which could not be seen and known before." [7]
To give is to receive
"As you give yourself, you will receive and in this you will learn the ancient law that to give is to receive." [8]
What you affirm within yourself...
"What you affirm within yourself you affirm for all individuals, in all circumstances, in all worlds and in all dimensions. Thus, you affirm the reality of Knowledge. Thus, you affirm your Ancient Home while you are here." [9]
All minds are truly joined
"Give all that you realize you can give, for this is a gift to the world. Though you cannot as yet see the result, have confidence that this giving will extend beyond your own mind and will touch all minds in the universe, for all minds are truly joined in reality." [10]
Communication is life
"Your life is communication, for communication is life. Communication is the extension of Knowledge. It is not merely the sharing of little ideas from one separated mind to another. Communication is far greater, for communication creates life and extends life, and within this is all joy and fulfillment. Within this is the depth of all meaning. Here darkness and light mix together and cease their separation. Here all opposites blend and melt into each other.This is the unity of all life." [11]
Alone you have no meaning
"Alone you have no meaning. There are no meaningful individuals in the universe. An individual is a potential for relationship. It is the relationships that are important. It is what you are connected to and who you represent that gives meaning to your existence here. It is what you belong to— not as in a political party or a social club, but who in your heart you are joined with— that gives meaning and substance to your existence. No matter how great and glorious you may become as an individual, no matter how esteemed and worshipped you may be in your society, you are only a potential human being until you have given your life to another. As a potential human being, you will not find your fulfillment. You will not fully experience your meaning or your purpose in the world or the direction that you must go in life. And you will need more and more adulation in order to offset the terrible sense of isolation that you feel. [12]
"How can you understand yourself except in the context of contribution to others? Alone you can do nothing. Alone you have no meaning.This is because you are not alone.This will be viewed as a burden and as a threat until you realize the great meaning that it has and the gift that it really is. It is the salvation of your life.When life reclaims you, you reclaim life and receive all of its rewards, which far exceed anything that you could give yourself.The value of your life is consummated and fully demonstrated through your contribution to others because until contribution exists, you can only partially realize yourself—your value, your purpose, your meaning and your direction." [13]
Fear and Love
"Fear disassociates; love joins. Both of these forces lead you to specific engagements with certain people but for different purposes and with entirely different results. Those who are serving the Forces of Dissonance are in relationship and are bonded to other individuals for this purpose. This is true because nothing, either real or imagined, can be done without relationship." [14]
"[The source of] your judgments of yourself and the world." ... " is fear, for you have only been trying to comfort yourself with your judgments, to provide a false security, stability and identity which you feel you are lacking." ... "Only from a place of self-love can you offer correction to yourself and to others." [15]
Evolution of intelligent races
"You have become increasingly interdependent between your nations and cultures. This was the intention of the Creator, for this is the natural evolution of humanity and all intelligent races in the universe." [16]
References
- ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 9: Spiritual Truths
- ↑ Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 24: What is Steps to Knowledge?
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 83: I Value Knowledge Beyond All Things
- ↑ The New Message on Freedom (February 23, 2008)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Allies of Humanity Book Three, Second Briefing: The Requirements for Freedom in the Universe
- ↑ Wisdom from The Greater Community Volume Two, Chapter 20: Learning from Others
- ↑ Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 2: What is the world?
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 148: My practice is my gift to God.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 149: My practice is my gift to the world.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 149: My practice is my gift to the world.
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 153: My Source wishes to express itself through me.
- ↑ Living The Way of Knowledge, Chapter 8: Building Spiritual Community
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 53: I have a mission in my life to fulfill.
- ↑ Relationships & Higher Purpose, Chapter 8: The Problem of Evil & the Forces of Dissonance
- ↑ Steps to Knowledge, Step 151
- ↑ The Recitation (April 1, 2011)