Today: Step 322 – Review~ … view
your participation objectively. Here you will learn how to learn … (MP3)
LET US NOW REVIEW THE PAST TWO WEEKS OF PREPARATION.
Once again review each step, rereading its instructions carefully and recalling
your practice for that particular day. Carry this forward for all the days in
this two-week period. Be objective and recognize where your practice could have
become deeper or more conscientious. Recognize how you still let the world
overtake you and how you need to reapply yourself with greater certainty and determination.
Do this objectively. Condemnation will only discourage you and will only lead
you to quit your participation, for condemnation is simply the decision not to
participate and the justification for not participating.
THEREFORE, DO NOT FALL INTO THIS HABIT, but view
your participation objectively. Here you will learn how to learn, and you will
learn how to prepare yourself and govern yourself. You must choose to
participate, and you must choose to deepen your participation. Every decision
you make on behalf of Knowledge is supported by the decisions of all others who
are making the same decision and by the power and the presence of your Teachers
who are with you. Thus, your decision for Knowledge, whenever it is made and supported,
is greatly amplified by the presence of all who practice with you and by the
presence of your Spiritual Teachers. This is certainly adequate to overcome any
obstacle you view within yourself or within your world.
THE POWER OF DECISION IS GIVEN TO YOU. Here the
power of decision is to view your participation objectively and to recognize where
it can be deepened and strengthened. Resolve within the next two weeks of
practice to carry forth what you have recognized as necessary this day. Here
you will be acting powerfully on your own
behalf, and the application of your power will be in the service of Knowledge,
for you are preparing to receive Knowledge. Here your will and your
determination are confirmed, for they serve a greater good.
PRACTICE 322: One long practice period.
From the journal: Step
321 - The world is awaiting my contribution.
7:29
a.m. Friday, July 6, 2001 – Am I in the wrong place to be doing my work? No.
Yesterday
– Regionalism works only when regions are defined. Without definition community
is limited. Where communities don't have boundaries, they seek to create them –
…
Localities
have to deal with the fact that they are in many regional alignments – how do
they coordinate that?
→World without
end. Amen
9:40
a.m. Email and Internet distraction. I see – but have no audience. My writing
skills – didn't develop them. I wanted to be in the action – thus planning. Yet
the real problems are spiritual – and that is taboo as the subject. Bringing a
vision – birthing it.
9:55
a.m. Technology is created by sophisticated information users. In the early
stages it requires sophisticated users. Over time interfaces are simplified.
Then there's the content.
2:03
p.m. At Little Bear. After Rotary I decided to take hike. Cindy said I should
do something on my vacation. It seemed like a good idea. I spent the a.m.
providing comments to Fast Company. I'm still convinced that is the way for
incentives to be created for regional strategies.
Approaching
Patience I was directed left – going to the top of the drive. Much steeper. On
the descent – nothing of interest is the meditation site.
I
don't miss the PDC, but I would miss a check. There is plenty to do there. If
other ideas lead to paying work, I'll follow.
On
the way up – still not knowing what to do with the marriage relationship. Still
rocky after 10 years – yikes!
I
remain committed to David and Sarah. That was my error… sticking with M.E. I
could have gone to Kentucky. Probably be the same place career wise – and life
would have been different.
With
the GCW acknowledgment of error and destiny, it is hard to know one from the
other. Well – that's not true. I wasn't honest – and stayed with M.E. With
Cindy, I ignored what I didn't like.
So –
in the greater perspective, that may be healed as I connect with my K, seems a
decent way to run the universe…so – I'll stick with it as long as it works. If
it doesn't work – it won't be truth and I won't experience freedom.
4:10
p.m. Pillars review – 4 years
1.
Relationships – peace
2.
Career and Providership – Ed
3.
My health – those of others – water
4.
Spiritual advancement – yes –
6:32
p.m. David called. His fines are paid. He's been checked in and out of jail. It
was tough for him.
…
–
The long practice is tomorrow – but I want to start now …
→ The resolution – "My personality has nothing to do with the
resolution. My family has nothing to do with resolution. The resolution is a
perspective few have taken. It needs to be taken sooner rather than later.
12:02
a.m. Saturday, July 7, 2001 – Friday night – pizza, movie, beer, silence
Earlier
– life is efficient, technology is not as wasteful. Mass production
(destruction) seems to make it so.
Thought
and writing is increasing; each Step requires more attention. Learning to
learn. 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
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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
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