x2 Step 265 - There is a greater freedom awaiting me. – Journal – Step 264

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There is a greater freedom awaiting me. Step 265

KNOWLEDGE WILL REQUIRE YOU TO BE FREE OF THE PAST and free of anxiety over the future. It will require you to be present with life. It will require you to be open and honest. It will require you to have faith and consistent self-application. It will require that you not be in conflict. It will require that you have great love and respect for yourself and a great appreciation for the world. It will require that you be able to experience your Spiritual Family and recognize your true place in the universe.

KNOWLEDGE REQUIRES THIS OF YOU in order for you to fully extend yourself to accept it. In this way, you become free in learning to become free. You become guided by Knowledge by learning to become guided by Knowledge. Here you achieve the goal by taking the steps. There is no magic formula where all of a sudden you become free. There is no magic belief system which, once adopted, frees you from the restraints of your past and concerns over your future. You learn this true freedom by application, step by step. Thus, as you learn to reclaim Knowledge, Knowledge reclaims you. And as you learn what freedom is, you actually become free.

YOUR PART IS VERY SMALL AND OUR PART IS VERY GREAT. You need only follow the steps and utilize them. The steps that are given will guarantee the result. A greater freedom awaits you and as you approach it, you assume that freedom and benefit from all of the qualities of that freedom and demonstrate all aspects of that freedom. Such is the nature of a perfect Plan that is beyond human comprehension. So perfect is it that you cannot destroy it if you follow it faithfully. This restores you and returns to you self-trust, self-confidence, self-love and comprehension of yourself in the world.

THINK UPON THIS IDEA EVERY HOUR TODAY, and in your deep meditation times enter into stillness and freedom. It is a great freedom to have this opportunity to immerse yourself in Knowledge, to immerse yourself in presence and to immerse yourself in the actual substance of true relationship in the universe. As you approach this, you will know that it is your freedom, and you will know that you are becoming free to assume it. Therefore, today you will take a great step towards realizing that a greater future is awaiting you. This great step will release you increasingly from the concern, the anxiety, the pain and the disappointment of your past. This will show you that a greater freedom is awaiting you.

PRACTICE 265: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

From the journal:  Step 264 - I will learn of freedom this day.

12:44 a.m. Thursday, May 10, 2001 – Step 264 "I will learn of freedom this day". What are my ideas on freedom? How is it kept?

I am free in my mind – free to think and test such ideas as S2K. – I've had free access to all sorts of books/ideas since I was young. There were boundaries, but I wasn't confined. I was taught not to be one of the bunch – so independent thinking was not forbidden. I was conservative on some issues, so I avoided – did not need much sexual stimulation nor political rebellion. I knew my freedom came from the democratic system, so I didn't propose a new one.

7:55 a.m. I began reading "Creating Web Pages with HTML" – I have content and a low-cost communications medium.

I am free to put this forth in the world. Like the work of the PDC designers, the results of applying this knowledge is far in the future.

10:05 p.m. Tired – yardwork almost 2 hours. I'm free to have a yard and do yard work. I'm 54 – not physical, nor have I ever been. Was in shape for some time though. Stopped Tai Chi. Spent more time working.

I am free to do the work I feel is important. The freedom is because of the society in which I live.

What do you think constitutes freedom? For a human, it is an environment where natural talents and abilities can be discovered and realized. Where there is nurturing of human life – and motivation for growth. It exists within an orderly society. Freedom isn't in a vacuum. It is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Most think freedom involves choice. S2K/GCW says no choice is freeing when you do your destiny.

What do you think prevents people from being free? Societies that are abusive, rigid, mono-cultural, enslaving, – anything that limits physical and spiritual development. People's own beliefs about themselves.

What produces a freedom that is lasting and secure? In the physical it is a society that holds these values and create/maintains the environment.

How can this be achieved? I'm living it – because of my family & ability to learn.

Understanding freedom is worthy mental work. 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.