Today: Step 334 - The presence
of my Teachers is with me every day.(MP3)
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| The presence of my Teachers is with me every day. Step 334 |
EVERY DAY, NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE, no matter where
you go, the presence of your Teachers is with you. This idea is to remind you
that you are not alone. This idea is to give you an opportunity to come out of
the isolation of your own imagination and to experience this presence and to
receive the gift of this presence. In this gift, your Teachers will give to you
the ideas and inspiration that you need. In this, you will express what you
have received and thus confirm what you have received.
PRACTICE REMEMBERING THIS UPON THE HOUR by once
again concentrating on the presence that is with you. You need only relax to feel
it, for it is most certainly with you. In your deeper practices, once again
enter stillness in the sanctuary of Knowledge so that you may receive this
presence and the great confirmation and comfort that it gives to you. Allow
yourself to leave self-doubt and the sense of unworthiness aside, for these
things will be consumed in the fire of Knowledge and purified from your mind. When
this is done, you will not need to give yourself grandiose ideas of yourself. You
will not need to misrepresent yourself in the attempt to escape your sense of
guilt and inadequacy, for guilt and inadequacy are consumed in the fire of Knowledge.
Therefore, bring all that obstructs your participation and all fears that haunt
and oppress you to the fire of Knowledge so that they may be consumed. You will
sit in front of this fire, and you will see them being consumed, and you will
feel your mind being bathed and cleansed in the loving fire of Knowledge. The
presence is with you every day. The fire of Knowledge is with you every day.
PRACTICE 334: Two 30-minute practice
From the journal: Step
333 - There is a presence with me. I can feel it.
10:03
p.m. Wednesday, July 18, 2001 –
Step
333 – "There is a presence with me. I can feel it". This was hard to
do today. It says: "Remember that you are not alone, and you will not
become isolated in your own thoughts". – I guess this happens – no matter
what down cycle I get – thinking returns to regions and gems pop out.
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Deep practice –
experience the presence
of love, which is the presence of
Knowledge
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Wisdom "
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certainty "
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which
is the source of your purpose, meaning and direction in the world which
contains for you your calling ...
This
Step promises a lot if we can in fact do a “deep practice”. Had we not gotten
near that to some degree, we would not be doing this again, a second, third or
whatever time through Steps we are at. Can this be done and we yet remain in
the world? Yes, that is what students report. 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.
