x2 Step 313 - Let me recognize that what is complex is simple. – Journal – Step 312

Today:  Step 313 - Let me recognize that what is complex is simple. (MP3)

Let me recognize that what is complex is simple. Step 313

YOU THINK YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS ARE COMPLEX. You think the world’s problems are complex. You think your future and your destiny are complex. This is because you have lived in imagination and have attempted to resolve questions without certainty. This is the result of using your personal beliefs to organize the universe according to your liking. This is the result of attempting the impossible, and this is the result of failing the impossible.

YOU HAVE BEEN SAVED BECAUSE KNOWLEDGE is with you. You have been redeemed because you are learning to receive Knowledge. Thus it is that all conflicts will become resolved, and you will find true purpose, meaning and direction in the world. You will find that you will still attempt to solve your problems for yourself, and this will only remind you that you need Knowledge to guide you, for all your own efforts can do without Knowledge is remind you of your need for Knowledge.

THEREFORE, TODAY REMEMBER UPON THE HOUR that Knowledge is with you and that you are a student of Knowledge. Have confidence that all problems you perceive—great and small, within yourself and without—will be resolved through Knowledge. Remind yourself as well that this does not put you in a passive state. This will require your active engagement as a student of Knowledge and the active development of your abilities for a true purpose. Indeed, you have been passive before because of your attempts at the impossible and your failure at the impossible. Now you are becoming active, and that which is active within you is Knowledge, for you are now receiving your True Self.

IN YOUR TWO LONGER PRACTICES, actively engage yourself with today’s idea. Attempt to penetrate its meaning. Review all ideas and beliefs that you currently possess that are related to it. Allow yourself to take inventory of your thoughts and beliefs so that you may come to recognize the work that must be accomplished within you. You are the first recipient of Knowledge, and once you have attained a certain degree of accomplishment here, Knowledge will naturally flow through you. Your activities will then be increasingly engaged in serving the world around you, and greater problems will be presented to you so that you may be saved from your own dilemma.

PRACTICE 313: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Picture: Grocery shopping – simple or complex. Not only are there thousands more products, but your must have the vocabulary, knowledge and time to read the labels.

From the journal:  Step 312 - There are greater problems for me to solve in the world.

12:55 a.m. June 27, 2001

Step 312 – Practice #1 – "Review all of the things you think hold you back and all the things you think you must resolve for yourself.

…as you look at each one remind yourself that a greater calling is given you which will correct these things or make their correction unnecessary".

 1. Relationship with Cindy

 2. Investment for retirement income

 3. Getting RI – Center for Regional Communities articulated

 4. Finding investors/funding

 5. Operating GIS

 6. Overeating

 7. Exercise to build strength

 8. Being interested in too many things

 9. David's daily problems and failure to learn in the past

10. Sarah's daily problems and failure to mature.

11. Maintaining the house – mow lawn

12. Need for regional support.

13. Need for regular sleep

1:03 p.m. Practice #2 – comparing my exercises of a year ago, life has smoothed out from the unburdened thing and my handwriting has gotten better.

"… you would not know how to establish your priorities between what is great and what is small".

→ Small personal problems – list 2

1. Relationships – Cindy

  Relationships – David, Jamie, Lane, Emily

  Relationships – Sarah and child and Relationships – work –

3. Work RI – CRC – goals –

– Time    – Plan/emergence

– Money         – website knowledge

– Focus

– Contacts

– Patience

2. Health

– exercise

– muscle

– sleep habits

– food

– alcohol

– chocolate

– cost

– adapt to glasses

3. Wealth/Work

– Debt on house

– Money to Sarah

– investment for future

– maintenance and upgrade of home

– landscape – work time

4. Spirit

– indolence, confusion, distraction

This day’s journal entries were entirely relating to the exercise of the Step. I could compare with the first year of this exercise and see improvement. This the value of the journal process. In the second exercise I regrouped the problems to match the four pillars. Progress via process. At this point we can’t envision how the correction will come. Let us continue.

NNC

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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.