Today: Step 244 - I am honored when others are strong. (MP3)
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| I am honored when others are strong. Step 244 |
WHEN YOU ARE STRONG, OTHERS ARE HONORED. When they are
strong, you are honored. In this way, Knowledge affirms itself in the world,
where Knowledge has been forgotten. Knowledge need only be affirmed through
experience and expression to be given to others. Your greatest teaching in this
life is the contribution of your life as it is demonstrated to others. Indeed, this
is your greatest gift to yourself, for as your life is demonstrated in its
value to you, your estimation of yourself will be redeemed, and you will
understand your true value in proportion to life itself.
THEREFORE, WHEN OTHERS ARE STRONG, you are honored.
In this way, you will not seek to belittle another to strengthen yourself. You will
not seek to affirm your advantage based upon another’s disadvantage. In this
way, no guilt will attend your accomplishment, for no one has been betrayed as
you seek to gain experience and advancement in life.
THE LESSON FOR TODAY IS VERY DEEP and will require
much consideration. Upon the hour repeat the idea for today and give it serious
consideration in every circumstance in which you find yourself. In your deeper
practices today, enter stillness and silence. Allow yourself this gift because
the idea for today is very simple and very true. It is in no way complex,
though it will require serious consideration, for you are far too used to
entertaining only things of superficial value. Throughout our training together
in these days, weeks and months, you are learning to engage your mind to
recognize what is obvious and apparent, but which has not yet been apparent to
you who have entertained yourself with shallow things.
THEREFORE, TODAY LET THIS TIME BE GIVEN TO
KNOWLEDGE. Let this time be given to that which strengthens you and all other individuals
in the universe. When others are strong, you are honored. In this, all separation
ends, and true giving becomes apparent.
PRACTICE 244: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
From the journal: Step
243 - I do not need to be special to give.
6:55
a.m. Thursday, April 19, 2001 – on arising – What will be the consequence of my
not attempting to make the regions visible? The earth will remain in ignorance
longer of this important view. The separated do not see the whole – nor do they
want to. They want a smaller whole/local – without mystery.
8:45
p.m. Center for Regional Communities. …
→The
transportation planning session went well. … I am the Planner for the region… the
ultimate plan – 50 years out… must be made.
→Got to the
office by 6 p.m. …
→Then home – eat,
watch a good C-SPAN BookTV show about The History of Latin America.
Came
up to read/meditate – but spent time on email – a time sink?
…
–
Break to take a call from David, – he needs Internet access.
–
But – my question –
why
paralyzed – can do no work in evening?
10:30
p.m. LTWOK – p.17 – "Is there something
in your life that you must do before you die? You must send this question deep
within you and do not expect an immediate answer. You must live with this
question because its answer is an experience".
I am
seeking this experience.
I am
also stressed – and have been for several years. I'm eating – over eating because
of stress. S2K is not a therapy, but it should help me with the stress.
–
Driving back from the workshop at SU and thinking of the issues – the world –
my sense/conclusion was that we all have to be more careful in the conduct of
life… and can integrate planning areas.
Amen
& Amen
Figuring out how to give. This will take time,
though we’ve given all our lives up to this point. Let us continue.
NNC
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