An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.
Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected _ to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual wisdom _ we are able to live and act with authentic effectiveness.
The Genius Myth
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Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected _ to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual wisdom _ we are able to live and act with authentic effectiveness.
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So do you want to make culture? Find a community, a small group who can lovingly fuel your dreams and puncture your illusions. Find friends and form a family who are willing to see grace at work in one another's lives, who can discern together which gifts and which crosses each has been called to bear. Find people who have a holy respect for power and a holy willingness to spend their power alongside the powerless. Find some partners in the wild and wonderful world beyond church doors. And then, together, make something of the world.
We are saved by grace.
Endure graciously the difficult times.
May God continue to give you much more grace for every great deed.