2020 Summit | MVS Full Teaching | The Purpose and Direction of the WWC

It’s what we can do together that determines the real meaning and merit—or lack of merit—in a relationship. I mean, attraction and beauty and charm and all the things that induce people to participate or to make people want to be with one another really has no place here. This is not what this is about. This is a mission-based environment. And the people in WWC [Worldwide Community] are in various stages of preparing to function in that mission-based environment and support it.

So when you’re in a mission-based environment, it really changes how you look at human engagement and participation.

So I have to say a few things about relationships and higher purpose today. For those of you who are very interested in this subject or have a need to know, the New Message is given a whole book, a very important book, on Relationships and Higher Purpose. I recommend that you make that your study, and if you can consider what that really means, because here we’re talking about relationships functioning at a higher level, not a level of personal need, personal insufficiency, personal attraction, not a level of fantasy or delusion.

Now, in working together, we can begin to experience what this is like. It’s not like you all of a sudden have relationships of higher purpose that are fully established. You are just really beginning to function in alignment with others to serve something of greater magnitude and importance. 

When people think of relationships and higher purpose, they often think of it in terms of marriage or partnership for life. That’s a whole other level of relationships and higher purpose. And the important thing I want to say about that at this moment is that in order to have that happen, you and the other person both have to be functioning and living an inspired and determined life. You have to be living not outside looking in, but inside looking out of a mission-based life—going in the same direction.

And on top of that, you all have to have all the elements of compatibility and personal alignment that would be necessary for a relationship at that level to be successful. It’s a big thing.

So don’t come looking for romance in the WWC. And I’ll tell you why. I’m going to read to you why that is the case. This is from Step 130 from Steps to Knowledge, from the book itself:

Why strive for relationships in the world when genuine relationships will come to you as you are prepared? To understand this, you must have great faith in the power of Knowledge within yourself and within others. As this awareness grows, the basis for your striving and desperate pursuits will fall away, making true peace and accomplishment possible for you.

Individuals will come to you through mysterious means because you are cultivating Knowledge. As you have relationships with one another on a personal level, you also have relationships on the level of Knowledge. It is this level that you will begin to experience, in small increments at first. Eventually, if you pursue your preparations appropriately, this experience will grow and become quite profound for you.

You do not need to seek for relationships. You need only give yourself to your preparation and have confidence that people will come to you when you need them.”

– Steps to Knowledge

Great article of faith here. So you can’t choose somebody to be with and then try to turn it into a relationship of higher purpose; that is never going to work. You have to be on this mountain moving upward. The other person has to be on that mountain moving upward. You have to be in the same place on the mountain moving upward. And then there’s all the personal dimensions of compatibility and functionality together that would have to be present for a relationship at that level to be established.

The whole notion of relationships of higher purpose is not my creation. It has come directly from the Source of all life. It is a high level of engagement. Most people are not even ready for it or know what it means, though it sounds very attractive.

Your preparation, as it said in Steps to Knowledge, is really the focal point here. You don’t need a relationship right now, not if it’s going to be an important relationship and something that’s going to be valuable. You have only to look at your past experience and the experience of others to see how wasteful premature relationships really are. 

In fact, I would have to say that next to war and extreme deprivation, romance is the most destructive form of human waste in the world. You will lose more life force over this, more time, more energy and resource than anything beyond things of a cataclysmic nature. Perhaps that’s not how you feel about it this moment. But I’m sharing this with you, and maybe someday you will remember that I said this and you’ll go, “Ah, yes. I can see that.” 

So be aware of your own relationship ambitions. Like many ambitions, they’ll have to be recognized and restrained. At a certain time in life, they may come into form appropriately. But you can’t have everything now. And you need to know what you truly need as to what you may want or expect. The New Message teaches what relationships and higher purpose really is. It is not what people think. Okay.