Unburdening
"God’s purpose in life is to unburden you.That is God’s first purpose. God cannot give you anything until you are unburdened.You cannot carry a gift from God if your hands are full of your own necessities."[1]
Simplification
"If your hands are full of your own necessities, how can you receive anything else? If your mind is filled to the brim with stimulating and exciting ideas, how can any real insight emerge or be given to you? First there must be an emptying out, a simplification, an unburdening. You don’t have to carry all of this baggage through life—the baggage of your possessions and your ideas. You keep what is needed and what is truly meaningful, and other things are simply given away because they are seen as burdensome." [2]
Liberation
"To prepare for the future and to have any hope of learning a Greater Community Way of Knowledge, you must be unencumbered. God's first purpose is to unburden you. This is the process of unburdening. Liberation from the past will occur as you engage with Knowledge because Knowledge is not oriented toward your past. It only seeks to lead you forward. As you can be led forward and find your way, then the past will become ever more distant and remote to you. The memories, the difficulties, the tragedies and the happiness will all fade. This will enable you to be more and more present in the moment, more whole within yourself and more open to others. [3]
Release
"It may take a long time for you to realize and come to understand that you are being unburdened. For, indeed, there will be moments when you will feel a great loss. You will not be able to justify your actions or behavior, but you will know that you must continue. And you will know you must say good-bye to your dear friend or companion. If you try to stay together, there will be increasing discord and disassociation. It is better to recognize your diverging directions and to bless and release the other person and to not linger trying to explain or to justify your actions." [4]
"You must be free from your past sufficiently to be able to move forward in a new direction and to establish a new and greater life than the life you had known before. To do this, you cannot take everything with you. You cannot carry all of your memories like a great store of luggage. The vehicle that will take you into the present and future will not accommodate all of this. Likewise, you cannot carry all of your relationships with you—all of your past loves, all of your friendships, all of your family, everyone that you like, everyone that you dislike, all the people and your memories of them that clutter your mind and keep you emotionally frozen in the past. Knowledge will break this up and call you out of your past orientation. Knowledge will free you, and it will unburden you so that you can be available to it and open to life as it is now." [3]
References
- ↑ Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume One, Chapter 12: Love
- ↑ Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 8: Who is Wisdom meant for?
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 13: What must be unlearned?
- ↑ Greater Community Spirituality, Chapter 14: What must be avoided?
See also
Further Study
- The Great Waves of Change, Chapter 4: The Deep Evaluation
- Steps to Knowledge, Step 96: God's Will is for me to be unburdened