Today: Step 330 - I will not neglect
small things in my life. (MP3)
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| I will not neglect small things in my life. Step 330 |
ONCE AGAIN WE AFFIRM THIS IDEA that you not be
negligent of those simple, practical tasks that enable you to be a student of Knowledge.
Remember you are not attempting to escape the world, but are working on
becoming powerful within the world. Therefore, do not neglect those simple,
little things that enable you and give you the freedom to become a student of
Knowledge. Here all of your activities, even the most mundane and repetitive,
can be seen as a form of service and contribution. In this way, all small
things, however mundane and repetitive, can serve the world because they
represent that you are honoring your True Self. This is the Self that exists in
all individuals, the Self that exists in the world and the Self that exists in the
Greater Community of Worlds.
BE ATTENTIVE TO THE LITTLE THINGS YOU DO this day
and do not neglect them. If you do not fear them, you will not resist them. If
you do not resist them, you will be able to attend to them. And as you attend
to them, you will be able to give yourself to them. Here Knowledge will express
itself in all activities and Knowledge will be taught and reinforced in all
activities. The world needs this demonstration, for the world thinks that God,
love, true power and inspiration exist only in ideal states and only in ideal
situations. The world does not understand that God expresses God everywhere and
that Knowledge expresses itself everywhere and in all things.
AS YOU COME TO UNDERSTAND THIS GREAT TRUTH, you
will see the presence of Knowledge in all things. You will see Knowledge within
the world. You will see Knowledge within yourself. This will give you complete
confidence in your own participation and in your own service to Knowledge. You
will then realize that you are saving the world time in its evolvement,
advancement and salvation. This is so important for your confidence. But it is
even more important for you to realize the greatness of Knowledge and the
greatness that you will experience within yourself as you learn to receive it.
UPON THE HOUR REMEMBER TODAY’S IDEA and apply it so
that you may be conscientious within each hour. In your two deeper meditation
practices, re-enter stillness so that you may rekindle your experience of the
fire of Knowledge so that the fire of Knowledge may purify and cleanse your
mind and free it from all restraint. In this way, you will be able to be in the
world more completely, and small things will not be neglected.
PRACTICE 330: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice
From the journal:
Saturday,
July 14, 2001
8:21
a.m. Step 329 – "I am free to love the world today". Teaching must be
very difficult and learning appears to be as well. What communicates to people?
Why don't some people learn – how can blockages be overcome? Learning that
which is good and helpful – learning to self-motivate for work…for
participation.
Evolutionary
processes, adaptation, cannot work without feedback. If you don't take data and
then compare results, you can't understand anything. Designs can't evolve
without feedback. My vision is to introduce the feedback loop which requires
people to be real.
–
S2K says I am free to contribute.
–
Failure is not the lesson, it is a result. Unless one understands, seeks to
understand why the results fell short of the objective, nothing can be learned.
Society’s
position – you can't count on those that birth children to rear them. If the
village doesn't help, then those without family skills are a liability – can't
function. This can happen across the economic spectrum.
My
contribution – it is so much bigger and comprehensive than I'm yet capable of
expressing. I want to find and network with those who have the interest in
understanding so that designs may be improved. The communication, planning,
design, engineering feedback loops and processes are all the same. What is
needed most is an ability to get appropriate feedback and to have the
capability to utilize that for change.
For
every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction. We don't understand
"reactions" – they can be/are
manipulated.
10:40
a.m. My life will be wasted if its experiences aren't used to generate ideas as
to how the pain there in might have been better dealt with. From the divorce
experience – what was needed is family therapy. Since children suffer, any
marriage which has children, where they seek a divorce, court could order a
family assessment process.
It
might pay to have the marriage license process include a mandatory prenuptial –
a default one based on state code.
The
intent is to have people think through these actions. Society bears the cleanup
cost for mis-parenting.
2:30
p.m. – Where am I? Physically – my coordinates are easy.
What
is my issue? I know where I want to contribute – and needing the time to do
that conflicts with the rest of my life.
8:52
p.m. The yard is mowed, flowerbeds as they are – weeded, grass trimmed. This is
work the land requires. Why do I have land? Cindy was gone for a haircut. She
came back and got agitated. We walked – a little planning for a trip. I made a
reservation for the car ferry. It will be both less and more than I expect. A
childhood – goal – one that has a high probability of being achieved.
An
interview with the author of an autobiography of W.E.B. du Bois talked
about how structured his day was. It became more so over time. I'll need that
to. I will isolate to do that. Others will? Miss me? – Don't think so.
Free
to love the world. Are there keyboards in heaven I ask as I enter this text? 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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