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| Today I will learn to listen to life. Step 62 |
IF
YOU ARE PRESENT TO THE WORLD, you will be able to hear the world. If you are
present to life, you will be able to hear life. If you are present to God, you
will be able to hear God. If you are present to yourself, you will be able to
hear yourself.
THEREFORE,
TODAY PRACTICE LISTENING. Upon each hour practice listening to the world around
you and the world within. Repeat the affirmation and then practice this. It
only takes a moment. You will find that regardless of your circumstances, there
will be a way for you to practice this today. Do not let your circumstances
dominate you. You can practice within them. You can find a way to practice that
does not produce embarrassment or inappropriateness with others. Whether you
are alone or engaged with others, you may practice today. Practice upon the
hour. Practice listening. Practice being present. To truly listen means that
you are not judging. It means that you are observing. Remember, you are
developing a faculty of mind that will be necessary for you to be able to give
and to receive the greatness of Knowledge.
PRACTICE
62: Hourly practice.
Picture:
Beijing Capital International Airport – departure gate. Being in the
world can place one in areas where it may be a challenge to listen, yet we do
learn to do so.
From the journal Step
61 - Love gives of itself through me.
6:48
a.m. Thursday, October 19, 2000
System
– a set of relationships.
7:11
a.m. Boundaries/local – work fine if you don't go anywhere, if you don't need
resources from the greater world, or contacts – Now if you export – or travel –
you enter boundaries of others…boundaries as membranes – they let in the
positive/necessary; are used to expel waste. Boundaries are protective –
intended to be so – they work inwardly, our defensive – but we need to relate –
so boundaries get crossed –
Boundaries
are relationships?
→The stock market
is down again, but I've not lost that much. It worries me – but why?
7:53
a.m. – A positive RI feedback from Ray H… – a person I met @ WFS – Houston.
Q:
how can I help humanity?
>
Moving to less…
In
the shower
→ it is harder to
be regional than local
→ local is 100%
of the time
→ regional is a
variable %
→ plus there are
so many options
>
My heart seeks to explore this issue and receive what it can. Spoke to Gene T… yesterday.
He asked what I was doing? I said teaching the new guy.
>
Presence is what counts?
→ PDC's in VA – I
know the PDC history – I am the PDC history.
The
journal is an aide to understanding Steps progress. Since one’s life is
unlikely to be 100% Steps, the journal is also a tool to work out problems and
record creativity in its steps, large or small. Let us continue.
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest due to this or other
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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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how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide
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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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