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| My gifts are for others. Step 53 |
YOUR GIFTS ARE MEANT TO BE GIVEN TO OTHERS, but
first you must recognize your gifts and separate them from the ideas which
restrain them, alter them or deny them. How can you understand yourself except
in the context of contribution to others? Alone you can do nothing. Alone you
have no meaning. This is because you are not alone. This will be viewed as a
burden and as a threat until you realize the great meaning that it has and the
gift that it really is. It is the salvation of your life. When life reclaims
you, you reclaim life and receive all of its rewards, which far exceed anything
that you could give yourself. The value of your life is consummated and fully
demonstrated through your contribution to others because until contribution
exists, you can only partially realize yourself—your value, your purpose, your
meaning and your direction.
IN YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, feel your
desire to contribute to others. You do not need now to determine what you wish
to contribute. That is not as important as your desire to contribute, for the
form of contribution will become evident to you in time and will evolve as
well. It is your desire to contribute born of true motivation that will give
you joy this day.
PRACTICE 53: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Picture: Walking
through the city, full of the gifts of the ancestors, we don’t know what ours
are intended to be. Antique store - Winchester, Virginia.
From the journal Step
52 - I am free to find the source of my Knowledge.
12:45
a.m. October 10, 2000
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Though
late – I need to consider fears. It is amazing to me how many dropped away – mostly due to S2K.
What
other fears/anxieties are there?
9. I
miss my destiny folks… and do less than I might.
10.
4:04
p.m. – Lexington – Route 11 N – Burger King – time for Practice #1 Step 52 “I
am free to find the source of my knowledge." Returning from VCPA at
Natural Bridge where I spoke on a panel of 2 set up by Mike Chandler – I
completed the presentation at 12:15 a.m. Then needed a half an hour to unwind.
It went okay – though the audience was small.
→Keep on RI –
S2K.
4:51
PM. How does a sailor become a planner – the environment drew it out of me.
Knowledge is within & without.
→ if there are two
parties, then the ultimate local has not been found.
Local
Planet
continent/ocean
Country
State
– territory
County
<municipal – neighborhood
un–incorporated
– community/village
–
What are loci/nodes for coordination?
Once
again, not too much in the journal, but the Steps page offers comment – again it
becomes the journal.
I
wrote: “in this exercise I
realized that Knowledge emerged from me through relationships, interactions.”
Do use your book, or a printout of the page PDF, if you are making your own
book this way.
One more fear got added in the early a.m., part of Step 51. Still quite an improvement in one year of study.
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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