x2 Step 26 – Journal : Step 25 - I am at one with the greatest truth of life.

Today: Step 26 - My errors give birth to my Knowledge. (MP3)

My errors give birth to my Knowledge. Step 26

 

IT IS POINTLESS TO JUSTIFY ERROR, but error can bring you to value truth, and in this it can lead to true Knowledge. This is its only possible value. We do not condone error, but if error occurs, we wish to make it serve your truest need so that you may learn from it and repeat it no more. It is not merely for you to forget your errors, for you cannot do that. It is not merely for you to justify your errors, for this will make you dishonest. It is not merely for you to look upon your errors as pure service to you, for they have indeed been painful. What this truly means is that you recognize that error is error and then you attempt to use it on your own behalf. The pain of error and the tribulation of error must be accepted, for this will teach you what is real and what is not, what to value and what not to value. Using your error for development means you have accepted the error, and now you are attempting to utilize it to derive value from it because until value is derived from error, it is error only and will be a source of pain and discomfort for you.

TODAY, IN YOUR TWO 30-MINUTE PRACTICE PERIODS, look at specific errors that you have made that have been very painful. Do not try to dismiss the pain of them, but see how in your current circumstances in life you can use them for your own benefit. Using errors in this way can show you what you need to do and what corrections or adjustments need to be made to enhance the quality of your life. Remember that any resolution to error always engenders true recognition and true discernment in relationship.

IN YOUR PRACTICE PERIODS REVIEW THE ERRORS that come to mind as you sit quietly alone, and then see how each one can be utilized to your current benefit. What needs to be learned from them? What must be done that was not done before? What must not be done that was done before? How can these errors be recognized in advance? What were the signs that preceded them and how can such signs be recognized in advance of error in the future?

USE THESE PRACTICE PERIODS for this introspective process and when you are done, do not speak of the results to any other person, but allow the investigation to continue naturally, as it naturally will.

PRACTICE 26: Two 30-minute practice periods.

Picture:  In the States, many errors are made shopping – like here at the San Marcos Premium Outlets near San Antonio, Texas, where people buy on credit and become greatly indebted. The arch makes it church-like, as consumerism is a religion for some. October 24, 2007.

 

From the journal:  Step 25 - I am at one with the greatest truth of life.

September 13, 2000

9:10 PM. This day – where am I? The level of thought I see in print with technology issues – and that which I experience with people – is a large gap. I know I need to write – and I shall… And I need to improve my energy level and be more efficient with what I expand. Nothing brilliant…

Not much of a journal entry for this highly important Step. The page helps, in that green ink is the first pass, and blue the second. 

Doing this Step today, the sentence: “You hold a great relationship with your true Teachers who are within you,” stood out. My focus the past few days has been on the Teachers of God. For my “true Teachers” to be within me is something that takes me deeper today.

The next sentences are equally important: “… first you must experience the source of your great relationship in its true establishment already. Then it is a matter of merely transferring it to the world outside, which you will do naturally in time.”  The goal of the Steps practice is to: “experience the source of your great relationship.”  At times in my life I have had the experience of being connected to everything. Am I transferring it to the outside world? Maybe some here and there, but more practice is required. 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.