Spirituality to Serve the World

True spirituality serves you and others in a practical and powerful way.

Spirituality is about Freedom from and Freedom for.

 

“Spirituality is not about getting out of the world, it is about getting into the world, according to the purpose that brought you here.”

“There is who you really are, and there is what the world has made of you. Your spiritual practice is an opportunity to recognize this.”

– Marshall Vian Summers

Marshall Summers

Teachings from Marshall Summers about Spirituality

The Mystery of Life

How Does the Mystery Move within the Manifestation of Life?

For the part of you that lives in the Mystery needs the part of you that lives in Separation, so that it can give its great gifts to the world through you. And the part of you that’s living in Separation needs the part of you that is living in the Mystery, so you can give your true gifts to the world

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Called to Greater Service

The Journey to Greater Service

The journey to a greater service means that you’re called to give something, not necessarily what you want to give, but what the situation calls for from you.

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why is religion important?

Why is Religion Important?

Religion is important, particularly in giving people a beginning structure within which to work, which includes a spiritual practice, a spiritual understanding, hopefully a very beneficial way of looking at the world a new understanding of yourself and the fact that you’re here evolving spiritually, that you’re not merely a sinner that is trying to please God so you’ll be saved.

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the crisis is being consumed by the world

The Crisis: Getting Consumed by the World

The crisis can be experienced if you ask yourself: “Am I living the life I know I was meant to live? Am I living the life I know I was meant to live? Or am I being consumed by the world?” People who are really suffering are living this crisis.

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Are you willing to rebuild your life?

Rebuilding Your Life

I think the journey is something we’re already in. The New Message talks about the journey tremendously, in great detail, stages of the journey, problems

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The three stages of knowing

The Three Stages of Knowing

Said very simply, and this is an oversimplification, but there are three stages of knowing. One is recognizing the sign or the impulse. The sign may be on the outside; the impulse may be on the inside. You recognize something that really stands out; it’s not ordinary. It’s not your usual thing to recognize.

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What is Sacred?

It is time now to speak of the Sacred—what is truly sacred, what must be revered, what must be recognized—and to see how it is

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Mindfulness: Time is of the Essence

The next is regarding the things that are really important, time is of the essence. It is really important. In fact, the New Message says that time is nothing to God, but everything to you—the time that you have

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Skills to Re-employ the mind

Skills to Re-employ the Mind

https://youtu.be/Uozdisz8vNI Marshall Vian Summers speaks about the development of skills that utilize the mind to respond to the world and face conflict, being in the

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Facing Suffering

Any true religious and spiritual pathway begins with suffering and is clarified by suffering. To begin this pathway, one must honestly face their own suffering without blaming others.

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Will I Find My True Partner?

People often ask, “Will I find a true partner for myself?” This is a very common and understandable question.

“Will I have true companionship?” It is possible, but first you must seek something more important, for true companionship arises out of your purpose in life.

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Who am I? Why Am I here?

“Who Am I? Why Am I Here?”

Steps to Knowledge, is a spiritual practice that represents both a path to God and a path of contribution in the world. It engages you in solving the two most fundamental questions in life: Who am I? and Why am I here?

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real meaning of christmas

The Deeper Meaning of Christmas

Christmas represents the emergence of Knowledge—the natural spiritual intelligence in the individual. This is exemplified in the life of Jesus, who beyond his own understanding even, a Greater Power emerged within him, overtook his life.

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What Not to Trust

Do not trust any spiritual teaching that does not emphasize your authority or that does not emphasize the reclamation of the deeper spiritual intelligence within

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Leave the Paved Roads of Life

Enter the Mystery. Enter the wilderness. Leave the paved roads of life, which represent the popular ideas and conventional thinking that people rely upon and

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Why Am I Really Here?

Have you ever asked yourself, “Why am I really here?” Perhaps in a moment of sadness, a moment of introspection or a moment of great

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What Unites Us

What matters in living in the world is stability and service and inspiration, problem solving, destiny—things of this nature, all of a higher order, not

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