Friday, July 31, 2015

x2 Step 212 - I gain strength from all who practice with me. – Journal – Step 211



Today:  Step 212 - I gain strength from all who practice with me. (MP3)

I gain strength from all who practice with me. Step 212

YOU DO GAIN STRENGTH FROM ALL WHO PRACTICE WITH YOU, for every mind that attempts to engage itself with Knowledge strengthens all other minds in doing so as well. In this, you cast your influence upon the world. In this, all others who seek to serve a true purpose cast their influence upon you. This counteracts the ignorant forces of the world. This counteracts the destructive forces in the world. This casts its influence on all minds to begin to awaken.

RECEIVE FAITH FROM TODAY’S IDEA, then, for faith it will give you as you realize that your own application is so greatly supplemented by the application of others. This will transcend any sense of inadequacy that you may have. This will help you overcome any sense of ambivalence regarding true preparation, for all other minds that are engaged in the reclamation of Knowledge are available to assist you here and now.

THUS, GREATNESS IS WITH YOU, the greatness of Knowledge and the greatness of all those who seek to reclaim Knowledge. With them you share a true purpose, for your true purpose is to keep Knowledge alive in the world. From Knowledge all things of good, whether they be of a spiritual or material nature, are bestowed upon the races for whom they are intended.

UPON THE HOUR REPEAT TODAY’S IDEA, and in your deeper practice periods attempt to receive the influence of all who are attempting to reclaim Knowledge. Allow their gift to enter into your mind so that you may experience true appreciation for life and begin to understand the meaning and efficacy of your own efforts as a student of Knowledge.

PRACTICE 212: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.


March 18, 2001

10:10 p.m. "I have friends beyond this world". This is proven today @ the 4th Regional Summit – where I met old friends and perhaps made new ones. I got back in time to go to the trail. I planned to meditate in the woods, but it was too cold. Then I sat down for  a minute at 5 trees on the FR side. I looked up – the stars were out…and where else would there be to look? I lay in the grass – looking up at Orion's belt and the dipper – little or big – I don't know. That lasted 25 minutes or so. I could not close my eyes – though I stayed still. The sight was too compelling.

I spent time on email – Jesse R... – still the foil, and a composition to Catherine R... – Atlanta - perhaps the first person to hear what I was saying about regional community.

Small successes need to be celebrated. The search for friends – relationship, as part of meaning, purpose and direction, and destiny – whatever that may be. Let us continue.

NNC


Note: If you’ve some interest due to this or other Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. You can use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in order in the archives - one post per Step.

Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

x2 Step 211 - I have great friends beyond this world. – Journal – Step 210



Today:  Step 211 - I have great friends beyond this world. (MP3)

I have great friends beyond this world. Step 211
 
YOU HAVE GREAT FRIENDS BEYOND THIS WORLD. That is why humanity is seeking to enter into the Greater Community because the Greater Community represents a broader range of its true relationships. You have true friends beyond the world because you are not alone in the world and you are not alone in the Greater Community of Worlds. You have friends beyond this world because your Spiritual Family has its representatives everywhere. You have friends beyond this world because you are working not merely on the evolution of your world but on the evolution of the universe as well. Beyond your imagination, beyond your conceptual capabilities, this is most certainly true.

FEEL, THEN, THE GREATNESS OF THE UNIVERSE in which you live. Feel, then, the opportunity you have to serve the Greater Community of which your world is a part. You serve your great friends within the world and your friends beyond, for the work of Knowledge goes on everywhere. It is the attraction of God. It is the application of good. It is the force that redeems all separated minds and gives purpose, meaning and direction to the universe. Regardless of the mechanism of physical life, its value is determined by its origin and its destiny, both of which are beyond your comprehension. Realizing that Knowledge is the means that propels the world in its true direction, you can then value and receive that which gives your life purpose, meaning and direction.

UPON THE HOUR TODAY consider that you have friends beyond this world, both in other worlds and beyond the visible as well. Consider that you have this greater association. In your two deeper practice periods today, allow your mind to enter stillness so that such things may be experienced. Do not dwell upon them in your imagination, but allow instead for your mind to become still so that it may bestow Knowledge into your awareness and experience. You have friends beyond this world, and they are practicing with you today.

PRACTICE 211: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

From the journal:  Step 210 – Review

Saturday, March 17, 2001

5:08 p.m. Step 210 – Long practice. A late start today. May not make it to the path. …

– Review intended to give me "greater perspective about the work of K in the world in the presence of K in your life".
  
[Review Points from note cards - not all quotations]

197 -  I will not think today that by a mere idea I can understand K with my intellect or that I can conceptualize the greatness of life. I have the power to dispel distractions, fear, obstructions you have the power to dispel obstructions because my will is to Know Knowledge. 

198 – “There are no shortcuts here; there is only the direct way. You are given the steps. Follow them. Be strong today”.

199 – “Without the limitation of a purely human viewpoint, you will be able to see the evolution of your world in a greater context”.

200 – “Allow your mind to become itself, for it was made to serve Knowledge”.

201 – “My mind was made to serve Knowledge”. accept that mind and body are limited “…be glad, then, that you have a mind and a body so that you may communicate the power and the essence of Knowledge”.

202 – “You may behold this (the grandeur of the GC) by looking at the sky above and by looking at the world below”. “Allow yourself to live in a great and mysterious universe that you are only now beginning to understand”. “You do not live in a human universe. You do not live in a human world. You do not live a purely human life”. – this gives greater inclusion

203 – “Weaker minds are influenced by stronger minds. This is true in your world and in all worlds”.

204 – I will be @ peace today. To objectively consider your world & the GC…should…incite…respect—respect for the power of the time in which you live and its importance for the future, respect for your own emerging abilities & their usefulness in the world that you perceive, respect for the greatness of the physical universe and respect for the power of K which is greater even than the universe that you perceive.

205 – “I will not judge the world today”. “Do not blame the world today. It is blameless, for it is merely demonstrating that Knowledge is not being adhered to. What else can it do but commit error and folly? What else can it do but waste its great resources? Humanity can only be in error without Knowledge. It can only create fantasy. It can only engage in loss. Therefore, it does not deserve condemnation. It deserves the application of Knowledge”.

206 – “…all your frustration in life is your inability to experience and to express this love which wishes to flow from you”.

207 – “…unforgiveness is merely the application of blame towards a situation in which you were unable to understand or to apply Knowledge. …all correction is given to you to apply. The failure of another is not your own, but your condemnation of it is your own… K is not shocked upon looking @ the world…. K realizes the smallness of the world and the errors of the world. The commitment to forgive, then, is the commitment to realize K and to apply K - for K dispels unforgiveness like the light dispels the darkness. For there is only K and the need for K. That is all that you can possibly perceive in the universe. Accept, then, your former limitations and dedicate yourself now to perceiving the world anew, without blame and with the greatness of Knowledge.
208 – All things that are most highly valued in human life—love, patience, devotion, tolerance, forgiveness, true accomplishment, courage and faith—all naturally arise from K, for K is their source.

209 – “Do not be cruel with yourself today, for there is no justification for this. Allow yourself to be blessed so that you may bless the world”.

210 – Review – “View your life objectively, without guilt or blame, so that you may understand how your life is truly emerging”. 


– Step 199 – "… The meaning of life is directly obvious to anyone who looks without the distortion of judgment or preference". What meaning do I see? – "The meaning of life is doing within the manifest context".

If as spirit we already "be" – are "beings w/o question" – then to get from being to doing creation was manifest. Life is "to do" spirit is "to be".

7:03 p.m. Review of Steps complete. Still need to reread journal for the two weeks. I'm reorienting my focus, my devotion, my service.

Let us continue.
 
NNC

Note: If you’ve some interest due to this or other Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. You can use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in order in the archives - one post per Step.

Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well through the Free School of the New Message.