Today: Step 355 - I can be at
peace in the world. (MP3)
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| I can be at peace in the world. Step 355 |
IT IS POSSIBLE TO BE AT PEACE IN THE WORLD because
you have brought the source of peace with you. You can be at peace in the world
even though the world is a place of active engagement, a place of difficulty, a
place of challenge and a place of necessary accomplishment because you carry
peace within you and because of the fire of Knowledge. From Knowledge all
meaningful thinking and activity emerge—all true inspiration, all important
ideas and all great expressions. Yet, Knowledge is greater than its
expressions, for it is a light unto the world.
YOU ARE AT PEACE IN THE WORLD because you are with
the light of the world, and yet you are engaged in the world because you have come
here to work. Only through participation by following each step can you realize
that there is no contradiction between peace and work. There is no separation
between stillness and activity. This you must fully experience, for it is a
complete experience, and your capacity for this experience must be increasingly
expanded. Your understanding and comprehension must be continually expanded. Your
engagement in life must become increasingly harmonious and uniform. Your
discernment regarding relationship must be increased and actually applied. All qualities
that are associated with the cultivation of Knowledge must be elevated as well.
This will make it possible for you to have peace in the world, for you were
meant to have peace in the world. Peace in the world is an expression of your
True Home in the world and in this you will find yourself.
PRACTICE 355: Read the lesson three times today.
From the journal: Step
354 - I must experience my True Home while I am in the world.
Wednesday,
August 8, 2001
…
11:07
a.m. At work – thinking…
→ Regional – you can't just
look at bigger – you must in fact be bigger – through the
network.
9:37
p.m. Where am I? Physically…on the back porch preparing for practice #2 "I
must experience my True Home while I am in the world".
I
have had the stillness feeling of home – even before GC Wisdom. I talked to the
guides through Christen in one session – I felt the feeling and described it as
"Home". Home is where the heart is – my heart – anyone's spiritual
heart is with them all the time – recognizing that as "Home" the link
to the True Home/Ancient Home is even logical – Going to Stillness – which has
many aspects – the flame of truth, the flame of Knowledge, all facets of
heart/home/spirit.
So I
can connect – then must be in the world – where that relationship is a
challenge to project. The world can be and is very disappointing since we are
so small in it and can want everything we see or imagine, or from that, just
rational selection – that overwhelms.
To
see that as the trend of the world, the movement to oneness – which is just a
Step in itself…that is the thing to Know – we are somewhere in the middle of
the story…
9:53
p.m. I Am at home in the world truly as Step 353 describes. It is
with a quiet joy that I go to my practice of stillness.
Messy
day – not shown, good practice. Let us continue.
NNC
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