토론:감옥
"True renunciation is not giving up worldly things. It is giving up ideas. They are the bars on your prison." [1]
감옥으로서의 몸
"If you think that your vehicle is your self, you will hate the vehicle because it will seem to trap you and you will feel imprisoned, bound and limited by it." [2]
개성에 갇힘
"You are taking a great journey from being imprisoned in your individuality to using it to express a Greater Reality."[3]
감옥문 밖으로
"You cannot stay in the room of unforgiveness and make it better, but you can leave the room."[4]
"People ask,'How can I rid myself of these terrible judgments? I see I have these judgments. They are binding me, imprisoning me, weighing upon me. They torment me. How can I get rid of them?' Well, you cannot get rid of them where you are, but you can do something else in life where they are not necessary, and then they begin to evaporate. God has a Plan and how the Plan works is that it gives you something meaningful to do in life."[4]
"Because you were meant to serve the world, the world calls it out of you. But you must be in a position to respond. If your life is completely caught up in what you have created for yourself, you are bound by circumstances and obligations and expectations and relationships. If your life is in disarray. If the Four Pillars of your life have never been built or established, you cannot respond to a greater calling. You do not have the power to do it. You do not have the freedom to do it. You do not have the self-trust to do it. You may feel it and it may shake you to the soul, but you are imprisoned in a life that you have allowed to be built up around you or that you have actively established yourself."[5]
투옥의 위험성
"For once you lose your integrity and your freedom, it is very difficult to regain them. Very difficult. Even when people have sacrificed their integrity for relationships or for money or for advantage, even under these more normal circumstances, it is very difficult to regain it. You have to mount tremendous effort and take risks. It is easier, then, to stay out of trouble than it is to get out. You do not want to become a prisoner in your own world. You do not want to become a prisoner in your own mind. You do not want to become a prisoner to anyone or anything else."[6]
"Do you wish to give over the authority of your life and have your life and circumstances completely controlled for a mere promise of greater technology or a promise of peace and equanimity in the world? There is peace in the prison because everyone is controlled. But is this really peace? Or is this simply the restraint of war?"[7]
각주
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2, Chapter 13: Religion as Mystery
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 31: Healing
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 2, Chapter 33: Perseverance
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1, Chapter 23: Forgiveness
- ↑ New Message on Fulfillment (August 24, 2007)
- ↑ The Allies of Humanity Book Two, Second Commentary: Effects of the Pacification Program
- ↑ The Allies of Humanity Book Two, Third Commentary: Understanding the Intervention