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| Today I will listen to another. Step 64 |
ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS TODAY, practice
listening to another. Listen without evaluation and without judgment. Listen
without your mind being distracted by anything else. Simply listen. Practice
with three different individuals today. Practice listening. Be still when you
listen. Attempt to hear beyond their words. Attempt to look beyond their
appearance. Do not project images upon them. Just listen.
PRACTICE TODAY LISTENING TO ANOTHER. Do not become
engaged with what they are saying. You need not respond inappropriately to
them, if they are speaking directly to you, in order to practice with them. You
will be engaging your whole mind in your conversation. Take time, then, to
practice listening without speaking. Allow others to express themselves to you.
You will find that they have a greater communication for you than you might at
first have anticipated. You do not need to figure this out. Simply practice listening
today so that you may hear the presence of Knowledge.
PRACTICE 64: Three practice periods.
Listening,
yes, it can be learned.
Picture: Foothills Trail – Boulder, Colorado.
From the journal Step
63 – Review
Saturday,
October 21, 2000
7:30
a.m. The RI home office begins. What I need to do is take things out of the
room and systematize what remains – with space for operations.
[new
volume of journal]
7:42
a.m. Saturday, October 21 – Organizing to make visible other people’s content –
the network for regional intelligence – the basis for regional affinity. This
is to become to a greater degree my pillar of work – parts mundane –
–
The historic Route 11/Valley Road Corridor/the modern I – 81 Corridor – trans
corridors/watersheds.
PD –
GA encouraging the localities to act cooperatively – it isn’t natural, it isn’t
historical.
>
Cooperation home remedies –
K-tracker
– Knowledge is growing – for those with minds that explore –
→Virginia
obsession with counties is dysfunctional
→PDC – organize
myself right out the door.
→Regions/regional
centers – my goal – put Front Royal on the map. Regionally centered local
planning for a networked planet. Public infrastructure – private communications
– local neighborhood – local planet.
→I received this,
I do not create it. I’m put in a position to see – and record it here as the
gospel of Tom – the good news which promotes unity.
→Yard sales of
the future –
→I want to do the
S2K review now…but first the flow of ideas must come through.
1:09
a.m. Sunday, October 22, 2000
This
Saturday was a good day. I still do not know where Regional Intelligence goes or what it is. The thoughts continue to trickle in. Who is the audience, how
does it spread? My little office shapes up…I could apply it to Front Royal –
and will. – I see concentric/multi-centered regions. No losers – a utopic–world.
More workers are required…how do we find each other?
The journal reflects how I relate my work to my
Pillar of Work. Others may have existing work that aligns, or are drawn to or
seeking a work. In any case, this is an example, but may relate to anyone who
has an environmental concern. Getting communities to act in concert is a major
challenge now and has been.
In the Review, all Steps were covered on the side
of one index card:
57 –
true
freedom abides within … It is born of the truth of your total inclusion in
life. … illness
is the beginning of freedom of the mind.
58 –
Knowledge is a feeling – it
must be experienced.
59 –
Think
of your life in terms of long-term development… Be objective about your life.
60– The world does not need blame. It needs service. It needs truth. And above all, it needs Knowledge.
61 –
62 –
If you are present to the world, to
life, to God, to yourself, then each will be heard.
63 –
The
world is a useful place to practice.
These Steps have been simple, but not easy. 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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