x2 Step 215 - My Teachers are with me. I am not alone. – Journal – Step 214

Today: Step 215 - My Teachers are with me. I am not alone. (MP3)

My Teachers are with me. I am not alone. Step 215

YOUR TEACHERS ARE WITH YOU, in the background. They are very careful not to extend their influence upon you too strongly, for you are not yet capable to receive this and to utilize it on your own behalf. Realize, then, that you travel through life with great assistance, for your Teachers are with you to help you to realize and to cultivate Knowledge.

FIRST, THEY MUST HELP YOU TO REALIZE YOUR NEED for Knowledge, for your need for Knowledge must be fully established before you can engage in the reclamation of Knowledge. You must realize that without Knowledge life is hopeless, for you are without purpose, meaning and direction. Then only your errors can teach you, and only they can support your unforgiveness.

REALIZING THE FAILURE OF YOUR OWN IDEAS to be a substitute for Knowledge, you can then turn to Knowledge and become the happy recipient of its true gifts. Here all things that you have truly sought will be meaningfully satisfied. Here you will have a true foundation in life. Here Heaven and Earth will come together within you and all separation will end. Here you can accept the limitations of your physical existence and the greatness of your spiritual life. Turning to Knowledge, therefore, is of the greatest benefit for you.

REMIND YOURSELF OF THIS IDEA upon the hour, and in your two deeper practices today, enter stillness, using the word RAHN if it helps you. Be happy today that you can receive that which frees you.

PRACTICE 215: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Guardian Angels, Saints, guiding spirits, thought-adjusters, …Teachers with me? Human artists have pictured them to help us. Center of this picture, “Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb” by Francisco de Zurbarán at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Maybe we are in the other room.

From the journal:  Step 214 - I do not understand myself.

12:22 a.m. March 21, 2000 – Would have been 32 years of marriage today. That it did not work saddens me – though our beliefs were too different for it to last. I live in the same place, but my mind is learning to truly see on a continuous process. Beliefs only carry you to the next set.

8 a.m. A day of rain – MIF – discussion of this issue. S2K #214 "I do not understand myself".

5:53 p.m. What do I think, want, know? I think I'm on a path to nowhere. I have far too many ideas, none of which lead to my earning or rather investing so that I can have some ability to promote regional cooperation/community in future. These are fearful thoughts. I think I've not done well with my investments because I’m self-trained, have not followed good instincts, and fundamentally and not prepared. I was distracted, wasted time and money waiting for others to change.

I want some partnership on my mission. I need to pace myself and get perspective so I can pace myself and be less stressed.

What do I know? With S2K, GCW I am on the right path. The Step yesterday "I do not understand the world" and today "I do not understand myself" are accurate.

10:59 p.m. Relatively good day @ work – getting watershed interest from Rockingham & Harrisonburg→

> Bill D… email→I see the regional needs/options/idea different

Regions – the Goldilocks Solution – just right size – not local, not state – in between size.

Conclusion: I do not understand the world or myself. OK, let us continue to work on that.

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.