Today: Step 218 - I will hold
Knowledge within myself today. (MP3)
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| I will hold Knowledge within myself today. Step 218 |
ALONG WITH KNOWLEDGE COMES THE WISDOM of how to use Knowledge
in the world. Thus, Knowledge is the source of your understanding and Wisdom is
learning how to apply it meaningfully and constructively in the world. You are
not yet wise, so keep Knowledge within yourself today. Allow it to strengthen
itself. Allow it to grow. It will give itself naturally, without your
attempting to force its expression. In time, you will learn to become wise,
both through the demonstration of Knowledge and through your own errors. You
have already committed a sufficient number of errors to demonstrate all that we
are telling you.
KEEP KNOWLEDGE WITHIN YOURSELF TODAY so that it may
grow strong within you. Allow yourself to extend its presence to only one or two
individuals whom you recognize can appreciate it, for your awareness of
Knowledge is still a tender shoot within you and cannot yet withstand the
vicissitudes of this world. It has not grown strong enough in your own
understanding to counteract the raging fear and hatred that sweep across the
world. Knowledge can withstand this without difficulty, but you who are learning
to become a recipient and a vehicle for Knowledge are not yet strong enough.
ALLOW KNOWLEDGE TO BE KEPT WITHIN YOU TODAY so that
it may grow. Remind yourself of this upon the hour as you carry this jewel within
your heart. In your deeper practice periods, which are times of freedom from
limitation for you, allow yourself to return to your great love so that you may
enter into true relationship with Knowledge. In time, all limitations to the
expression of Knowledge will be lifted as you learn to wisely apply its
communication in the world. But for now, keep Knowledge within your heart so
that it may grow stronger and stronger.
PRACTICE 218: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Note: “…Knowledge
is the source of your understanding and Wisdom is learning how to apply it meaningfully
and constructively in the world.”
From the journal: Step
217 - I give myself to Knowledge today.
7 a.m.
March 24, 2001
Life
is easier @ work. I'm a planner, this is my regional community. I'll just get
by on the financial side. I started investing in the 1980’s for the kids. I
just didn't trust my broker –…– nor did I learn enough about stocks. I've had
good ideas – but not followed through. That is my error – my bad. Doing too
much with too few resources? I don't know. What hurts is my lack of resources
to help David and Sarah. I gave so much before…now life for them is so hard. I
feel like I've failed there. I did not have enough Knowledge at the time.
GCW
– II – perceptions of Humanity p. 214 – for the adolescent humanity The Teachers:
"Their commitment is for you to learn The Greater Community Way of Knowledge,
to enable your sense of spirituality and your spiritual traditions to evolve into
a larger arena of life and be applicable there, in order to give you a more
universal sense of the Greater Power in life and to engender the cultivation of
intelligence, responsibility and cooperation. These are the three fundamental
pillars upon which any race or society must develop and advance".
→So far I'm 2 out
of 3 – intelligence & cooperation. I need to bring to visibility
"responsibility". I may not have done a good job of that myself.
8:15
a.m. Where am I? In the middle of something, in an environment, the middle of a
story.
Although
the firstborn child of my parents, I've always found myself to be in the middle
– no matter how
…
Forces
of Good
[Again
trying to map out the relationships discussed in the Steps and the books.]
→ the cultural heavens
→ local religions
– evolutionary – social cultures
>
Mapping the heavens – the SPS – spiritual positioning system
Time→ I have this far more important integration project
to work on. How can I keep the energy for it. I need “on earth” allies→
>
Local Planet: Regional Community Solutions
>
"Saving our Local Planet through Regional Community Action".
Long
ago the physical territories of the earth were divided into nations. Boundaries
were drawn and enforced as barriers to other cultures. Things let in and sent
out were trade items – transfer of technology from one culture to another.
As
the Human Genome Project now educates us, biologically – humans are the same
and surficial characteristics are the cumulative reflection of adaptation to
climate.
1:10
a.m.. Sunday, March 25, 2001
→No direct 2nd
practice Saturday, yet I Know giving myself to Knowledge sets me free of the
current earth spell.
Statement
or question – Humanity is an experiment/or experience.
Spent
the evening at the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" – A
visual/well told story about China – martial arts and humanity. Then –@ home –
watched taped TLC shows about UFOs and Alien abduction experiences.
How
many times does one need to see the warning?: Some new video – new speakers,
new but old.
Before
we can answer what humanity will do, it is necessary to answer: What humanity is?
Covered a lot of territory this day. You are likely
to have such days as well. 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.
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