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When circumstances require, as they do here, that many unite to achieve a goal, what is needed is that their separate drives be discarded in favor of an organized, collective effort. Joining together in trust for mutual good builds a social structure with balance and support. The quality of open sincerity helps to remove the walls of distrust that often divide people. Clarity of purpose and commitment to common values build sustaining fellowship. |
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(Q) Please help me understand why it is so difficult for me to obtain cooperation and sincere help of individuals in presenting Furfluf. (A) Oft the very misunderstanding is brought about by distrust of self, distrust of others, and the wonderment of the activities about self. So, just be that which is known to be—not self-righteous, but righteous in other respects; that is, to others in gentleness, patience, kindness, long-suffering—these create the atmosphere of trust. Ye will not be trusted if ye do not trust others. 1000-19 If the entity will apply in self that it knows to do—not as something that applies to self alone, but that applies to self in its relationships to others—the results will be apparent. Ye apply thy love, if ye would have others love thee! Ye do trust others and ye are the trust and the hope, if ye would have hope or expect others to have hope and trust in thee! 3078-1 (Q) [69]: What is the extreme test of fellowship? (A) Doing unto others as ye would have them do unto you is the extreme test of fellowship. Without same ye may not wholly please God. 262-22 (Q) [307]: Can brotherhood exist among men without true fellowship? (A) Fellowship is first brotherhood, a pattern of—or a shadow of—what fellowship is; for, as has been given, all one sees manifest in a material world is but a reflection or a shadow of the real or the spiritual life. Brotherhood, then, is an expression of the fellowship that exists in the spiritual life. 262-23 . . . the trust must be in Him, not in the group! The group is only lending their power, their ability, to make more aware the needs of each individual so seeking of that power! for He hath knowledge of that we have need of before we ask, but "Ask and ye shall receive." 281-9 The entity gained throughout that period; for, from its early experience, as will be seen, there has been the consciousness of the needs for man in the low estate as well as in the high estate to be dependent one upon the other; yet the needs for the trust, the confidence to be established upon a principle or a basis for the betterment of each group. This was the basis upon which the entity applied itself in that period. 2902-1 | |
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