x2 Step 258 - Who are my friends today? – Journal – Step 257

Today:  Step 258 - Who are my friends today?

Step 258 - Who are my friends today?

 

 

YOUR FRIENDS TODAY ARE ALL WHO ARE RECLAIMING Knowledge and all who have reclaimed Knowledge. Your friends tomorrow will be all who will reclaim Knowledge. Therefore, everyone is either your friend or will become your friend. It is only a matter of time, and time can only seem long to those who dwell within it without purpose. But to those who dwell in time with purpose, time moves swiftly and brings about this great result.

WHO ARE YOUR FRIENDS TODAY? Everyone is your friend or will become your friend. Therefore, why have an enemy? Why call another an enemy who is in opposition to you, for they will become your friend. Knowledge will join you. You are reclaiming Knowledge, so you are paving the way for this.

WHO ARE YOUR FRIENDS TODAY? Your Teachers and your Spiritual Family and all who reclaim Knowledge. Thus, your range of friendship is enormous. There are many avenues in the reclamation of Knowledge, but the essence of learning is always to become engaged with Knowledge itself and to allow Knowledge to express itself through you. Thus, the universe is filled with your friends—some of whom you may recognize and some of whom you may not be able to recognize, some of whom you will be able to involve yourself with and some of whom you will not be able to involve yourself with, some of whom you will be able to accomplish things with and others whom you will not be able to accomplish things with. It is all a matter of time.

REPEAT THIS IDEA UPON THE HOUR. Witness it as a signpost of reality for you. In your deeper practices, enter into stillness and silence so that you may experience the depth of your relationship with your true friends. Your life is filled with love. It is filled with the result of all those who are reclaiming Knowledge now. Your desire for Knowledge is motivated by all those who still refuse to reclaim Knowledge, for they in the future will be your friends as well. Given this viewpoint, you will recognize that even those who will be your friends in the future are in actuality your friends today, for they are serving you, and they are asking that you serve them through your accomplishment with Knowledge.

PRACTICE 258: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

From the journal:  Step 257 - Life is greater than I had ever realized.

Thursday, May 3, 2001

7:45 a.m. Step 257 – "Life is greater than I had ever realized". The practice is to actively consider this. …

My greater purpose, as has emerged is regions and planning for the future. I'm understanding the failure to invest in both personally and in the context of Virginia's development. It is not difficult to see me in the context of this world – a small part.

I have always done my work in the world – seeking a way to be useful. Besides work on my own life, which is incomplete – I see much else to be done in the world.

The current goal is to refine this area as RI.

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8:29 a.m. – The Center for Regional Communities – we live in a multi-dimensional world – localities and interlaced regions. Seeing these relationships in relation to the present, the past – which provides the roots, and their necessity in the future is a task for all of society. SU can pioneer in this emerging approach – the DNA of regional/multi-– community life.

8:02 p.m. @ 5 trees – Lawn mowed – here to eat a sandwich and do Practice #2 Thinking about life. …

→ For me – my part has become smaller, because it takes so much to change anything; plus it is changing as it goes. So – the world/universe/relationships get bigger; I get smaller. I seek to be more focused – more community focused. My life is simpler, it is not hard – but frustrating – and, though I become aware of teachers and other students, current relationships fade. That is the scary part – the part I knew from the beginning … I sense my work is to be done here because this region is the model. That may change – I may need to move.

It is 8:25 p.m. getting dark. I looked up – there was a bright light, like a light bulb – it was – the moon.

The world is much greater. Seeing the pictures from the Hubble telescope further minimizes life scale, making everything tiny.

→big here, in relationship to the universe is tiny. Tiny here is still tiny, if not more tiny. 5/12/01

Greater, smaller, simpler, tiny. Many scales. Let us continue.

NNC

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