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| I must experience my freedom to realize it. Step 279 |
FREEDOM IS NOT A CONCEPT OR AN IDEA. It is an
experience. Therefore, it must be realized in many, many different
circumstances for you to see its universal application. This you are given time
to accomplish. This will make all of your activities meaningful, purposeful and
valuable. Then, you will have no foundation for condemning yourself or the
world, for all things will strengthen your understanding of the necessity for
Knowledge and all things will be the recipients of Knowledge.
THEREFORE, GIVE YOURSELF TO PRACTICE, preparation
and application. Do not identify merely with ideas, for even the greatest idea
is meant to be an expression in changeable circumstances and will itself be
unstable. To have genuine stability in the world, you must identify with
Knowledge and allow Knowledge to demonstrate its power, its efficacy and its
benevolence within the world. You must experience your freedom to value it and
to comprehend its meaning in the world. This is why you are a student of
Knowledge. And this is why you must apply everything that you are learning in
your preparation here.
REMEMBER THIS UPON THE HOUR as you are engaged in
the world. Remember this in your deeper meditation practices where you are
engaged in your inner life. In both arenas, Knowledge must prevail. In both
arenas, your freedom must be exercised to be realized. In your deeper
meditations, exercise the strength of your mind to enable it to come into
stillness and quietude. Do not let fear or ambivalence dominate you this day.
You are practicing your freedom and exercising it, for you can only be free
when you are still inside, and if you are still inside, you are free already.
PRACTICE 279: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly
From the journal: Step
278 - What is changeless will express itself through me.
6:45
a.m. Thursday, May 24, 2001
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Tomorrow at this time I'll be on the plane to Denver. That is amazing.
Step
278 – "What is changeless will express itself through me".
7:44
a.m. Many things to do today. My vitality has returned. I've got to let the
office go as it goes. I don't Know how much teaching I'll be able to do.
Planning is inherently subversive to the status quo. It was meant to deal with
change →but people only want positive change.
The plane trip to Denver is for the Greater
Community Retreat being held by the Society in Boulder, Colorado. Text relating
to that will be in the entries of the coming days.
The entry is short this day. I thought that in the
second time through, my entries would be deeper – more thoughtful, and many
have been, but year to year, sometimes the first exercise has more, Though
there is a URL for every day, should you wish to compare the first time entry,
it will be here http://steps2know.blogspot.com/
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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