Today: Step 102 - There is much I must unlearn. (MP3)
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| There is much I must unlearn. Step 102 |
YOUR
LIFE IS FULL OF YOUR OWN NECESSITIES AND IDEAS, full of your own requirements
and ambitions, full of your own fears and full of your own complications. Thus,
your vehicle for giving is burdened and cluttered, and your energy is largely
misappropriated. That is why it is God’s first step to unburden you. Until this
happens you will simply attempt to resolve your situation without knowing what
to do, without understanding your predicament and without accepting the
assistance that you will surely need in time. Therefore, accept your
unlearning, for it will unburden you and give you reassurance that a greater
life is possible and inevitable for you who have come here to give.
UPON
THE HOUR REPEAT THIS STATEMENT and consider it. View its reality in terms of
your perception of the world. In your two longer practice periods, once again
practice mental stillness in silence, where nothing is attempted and where
nothing is avoided. You are only engaging your mind to be still so that it may
learn to respond upon its own to that which calls to it. With each step you
make in your unlearning, Knowledge will fill in that which had replaced it.
This is instantaneous, for you are only moving yourself into a position to
receive so that your giving may be generous, genuine and fulfilling to you.
PRACTICE
102: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Riding
my grandson's bicycle in Greenville, Texas. Riding a bike is a physical leaning
our bodies need not unlearn.
From the journal Step
101 - The world needs me, but I will wait.
6:30
a.m. Tuesday, November 28, 2000 – I wake confused and depressed. It seems like
I want to be the whole world, yet can't handle simple things. A grandiose
isolation. I'm tired of my work, yet it’s the only thing I want to do. The
value I put in my stock is very low. Not a good imprint. Still lots of anger –
against myself, an unfair world, others who don't see the value I do. I really
am not knowing how the world works. I guess I'm not alone…but I feel so.
7 a.m.
I Know the Diamond Cutter is true and its application is consistent with S2K.
I'm restless now and need to be focused/centered to do my small part.
S2K
– 101 – The world needs me, but I will wait. I've been giving on my own and
perhaps not doing the best job of it. The text says "Knowledge within you
will respond to the world."
At
this point, I know what I want to give – the perspective of regions, but I
don't Know how. You exist locally, but life carries out in a regional context.
A geo-unity which works silently like Knowledge.
–
Did the thinking part, then into meditation for a half hour. I need to retain
faith in myself. I've erred, but am not lost.
A day of difficult thoughts. Which fish in the
aquarium do you identify with? Yellow is my color – therefore that’s my power
choice. Let us continue.
NNC
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