Idealism
"The Greater Community Way of Knowledge takes you beyond
idealism and speculation into real engagement and greater certainty."
[1]
Identification
"What is idealism but ideas of things that are hoped for based on disappointment? Your idealism includes yourself, your relationships and the world in which you live. It includes God and life and all realms of experience that you can imagine. Without experience, there is idealism." [2]
"This is the great difference between Wisdom and idealism. Wisdom leads to action, and idealism leads nowhere. It has no direction. You cannot act upon it effectively, for it is not going anywhere." [3]
Directives
"Let not idealism guide you, for Knowledge is here to guide you." [2]
The limits and cost of idealism
"Idealism can be helpful at the beginning, for it can start you moving in a true direction, but you must not rest your conclusions or your identity upon it, for only experience can give you that which is true to you and that which you can fully accept.... Even though your ideals may look beneficial and seem to represent your desire for love and harmony, they in effect hold you back, for they replace that which would truly give you the gifts that you seek." [2]
"Idealism of any kind stands in the way of the reclamation of Knowledge. It is a choice for belief over experience, for ideas over relationships, for self-importance over truth. Even for those who have very lofty ideas about themselves and the universe, their ideas, which may seem harmless within themselves, become a great restraint in The Way of Knowledge." [1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume Two, Chapter 34
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Steps to Knowledge, Step 54
- ↑ Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 6