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== Directives == | == Directives == | ||
| − | This is not a time for confusion, ambivalence or complacency. This is a time to meet a greater challenge. This is a time to prepare yourself for things you cannot even comprehend. This is a time to follow Knowledge and to regain your true power and direction, which are yours to reclaim and which are needed now for you to begin the preparation. | + | "This is not a time for confusion, ambivalence or complacency. This is a time to meet a greater challenge. This is a time to prepare yourself for things you cannot even comprehend. This is a time to follow Knowledge and to regain your true power and direction, which are yours to reclaim and which are needed now for you to begin the preparation." |
| − | + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, p. 129 | |
| − | [ | + | "You must become sober about yourself and your life.... You must rise above your preoccupations and your petty interests and concerns." |
| − | + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, p. 135 | |
| − | Fear will not prepare you. Wishful thinking will not prepare you. Saying everything will be wonderful will not prepare you. You must prepare. Let Knowledge motivate you. Let your deeper sense of what is right and correct motivate you. Nothing is being asked of you except to receive the gift of Knowledge that is being given to your world through this Teaching. | + | "Fear will not prepare you. Wishful thinking will not prepare you. Saying everything will be wonderful will not prepare you. You must prepare. Let Knowledge motivate you. Let your deeper sense of what is right and correct motivate you. Nothing is being asked of you except to receive the gift of Knowledge that is being given to your world through this Teaching." |
| − | *[ | + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 15, p. 197 |
==Short Quotes== | ==Short Quotes== | ||
| − | Perhaps your life has been changing internally and externally as if in preparation for something great that you would have to serve and be a part of. If this is your experience, then you can be certain that you are preparing for the new world, however unconsciously. | + | "Perhaps your life has been changing internally and externally as if in preparation for something great that you would have to serve and be a part of. If this is your experience, then you can be certain that you are preparing for the new world, however unconsciously." |
*The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011) | *The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011) | ||
| − | The Greater Community Way of Knowledge is a very great preparation. It is great because it meets a great need in the world. | + | "The Greater Community Way of Knowledge is a very great preparation. It is great because it meets a great need in the world." |
| − | + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, p. 127 | |
| − | What you are preparing for is greater than what your parents or your grandparents had to face. | + | "What you are preparing for is greater than what your parents or your grandparents had to face.... You are preparing for a world that must establish a world community. You are preparing as a race to encounter intelligent life from beyond the world and to become engaged and involved, inadvertently, in a larger scheme of affairs, conflicts and interactions that are occurring in this part of the Greater Community." |
| − | + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, pp. 128-29 | |
| − | You are preparing for a world that must establish a world community. You are preparing as a race to encounter intelligent life from beyond the world and to become engaged and involved, inadvertently, in a larger scheme of affairs, conflicts and interactions that are occurring in this part of the Greater Community. | + | "Your preparation will restore you and redeem you to your real purpose and meaning in life. Where you have come from, you are important. When you are in the world, you are not important until you find the importance that you experienced and that you knew before you came here." |
| − | + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, p. 136 | |
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==Long Quotes== | ==Long Quotes== | ||
| − | The shock of the future will be a shock because you are unprepared. You have not been paying attention. You have been obsessed with other things of little or no significance. You have been caught up in the affairs of the day and in your own feelings, memories and regrets, not mindful of the world around you. | + | "The shock of the future will be a shock because you are unprepared. You have not been paying attention. You have been obsessed with other things of little or no significance. You have been caught up in the affairs of the day and in your own feelings, memories and regrets, not mindful of the world around you. |
| − | With preparation, there is no shock. There is only confirmation. Even that which is shocking will not overwhelm you. It will surprise and dismay you perhaps in the moment, but you will not be overtaken by it. You will not be paralyzed by it, frozen in fear, without any idea of what to do. When the ship begins to list and takes on water, you will be ready. You will not be frozen. You will not go down with the ship. | + | "With preparation, there is no shock. There is only confirmation. Even that which is shocking will not overwhelm you. It will surprise and dismay you perhaps in the moment, but you will not be overtaken by it. You will not be paralyzed by it, frozen in fear, without any idea of what to do. When the ship begins to list and takes on water, you will be ready. You will not be frozen. You will not go down with the ship." |
*The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011) | *The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011) | ||
| − | The Greater Community is what you are preparing for. Of course you don't see this, at least not yet. From where you are looking, all you see are the immediate things of your life. And what you speculate may happen tomorrow is based upon these things. However, when you have a greater perspective and can see further afield and can see what is coming on the horizon for humanity, then you will have the incentive to prepare and to educate yourself and others. | + | "The Greater Community is what you are preparing for. Of course you don't see this, at least not yet. From where you are looking, all you see are the immediate things of your life. And what you speculate may happen tomorrow is based upon these things. However, when you have a greater perspective and can see further afield and can see what is coming on the horizon for humanity, then you will have the incentive to prepare and to educate yourself and others." |
| − | + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, p. 132 | |
| − | If you prepare consciously and wisely, you and future generations will have a greater opportunity to live and to realize the great rewards of being part of a Greater Community of life. However, if you fail to be aware of the need for preparation or if you do not prepare wisely or effectively, then life will become more harsh and difficult, and the challenges will seem abrupt and overwhelming. You will be taken by surprise, and you will not be ready. | + | "If you prepare consciously and wisely, you and future generations will have a greater opportunity to live and to realize the great rewards of being part of a Greater Community of life. However, if you fail to be aware of the need for preparation or if you do not prepare wisely or effectively, then life will become more harsh and difficult, and the challenges will seem abrupt and overwhelming. You will be taken by surprise, and you will not be ready." |
| − | *[ | + | *[[Greater Community Spirituality]], chap. 11, p. 135 |
== Further Study == | == Further Study == | ||
| − | [http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter10.php?bg=black ''Greater Community Spirituality'' | + | [http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter10.php?bg=black ''Greater Community Spirituality'', chap. 10: How Do You Prepare?] |
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| − | [http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter11.php ''Greater Community Spirituality'' | + | [http://www.newmessage.org/chapters/greater-community-spirituality/chapter11.php ''Greater Community Spirituality'', chap. 11: What Is Your Preparation For?] |
[[category:the Great Waves of change]] | [[category:the Great Waves of change]] | ||
[[category:higher purpose]] | [[category:higher purpose]] | ||
Revision as of 01:43, 24 November 2011
Directives
"This is not a time for confusion, ambivalence or complacency. This is a time to meet a greater challenge. This is a time to prepare yourself for things you cannot even comprehend. This is a time to follow Knowledge and to regain your true power and direction, which are yours to reclaim and which are needed now for you to begin the preparation."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11, p. 129
"You must become sober about yourself and your life.... You must rise above your preoccupations and your petty interests and concerns."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11, p. 135
"Fear will not prepare you. Wishful thinking will not prepare you. Saying everything will be wonderful will not prepare you. You must prepare. Let Knowledge motivate you. Let your deeper sense of what is right and correct motivate you. Nothing is being asked of you except to receive the gift of Knowledge that is being given to your world through this Teaching."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 15, p. 197
Short Quotes
"Perhaps your life has been changing internally and externally as if in preparation for something great that you would have to serve and be a part of. If this is your experience, then you can be certain that you are preparing for the new world, however unconsciously."
- The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011)
"The Greater Community Way of Knowledge is a very great preparation. It is great because it meets a great need in the world."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11, p. 127
"What you are preparing for is greater than what your parents or your grandparents had to face.... You are preparing for a world that must establish a world community. You are preparing as a race to encounter intelligent life from beyond the world and to become engaged and involved, inadvertently, in a larger scheme of affairs, conflicts and interactions that are occurring in this part of the Greater Community."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11, pp. 128-29
"Your preparation will restore you and redeem you to your real purpose and meaning in life. Where you have come from, you are important. When you are in the world, you are not important until you find the importance that you experienced and that you knew before you came here."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11, p. 136
Long Quotes
"The shock of the future will be a shock because you are unprepared. You have not been paying attention. You have been obsessed with other things of little or no significance. You have been caught up in the affairs of the day and in your own feelings, memories and regrets, not mindful of the world around you.
"With preparation, there is no shock. There is only confirmation. Even that which is shocking will not overwhelm you. It will surprise and dismay you perhaps in the moment, but you will not be overtaken by it. You will not be paralyzed by it, frozen in fear, without any idea of what to do. When the ship begins to list and takes on water, you will be ready. You will not be frozen. You will not go down with the ship."
- The Shock of the Future (April 30, 2011)
"The Greater Community is what you are preparing for. Of course you don't see this, at least not yet. From where you are looking, all you see are the immediate things of your life. And what you speculate may happen tomorrow is based upon these things. However, when you have a greater perspective and can see further afield and can see what is coming on the horizon for humanity, then you will have the incentive to prepare and to educate yourself and others."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11, p. 132
"If you prepare consciously and wisely, you and future generations will have a greater opportunity to live and to realize the great rewards of being part of a Greater Community of life. However, if you fail to be aware of the need for preparation or if you do not prepare wisely or effectively, then life will become more harsh and difficult, and the challenges will seem abrupt and overwhelming. You will be taken by surprise, and you will not be ready."
- Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11, p. 135
Further Study
Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 10: How Do You Prepare?
Greater Community Spirituality, chap. 11: What Is Your Preparation For?