 |
| My practice is my gift to the world. Step – 149 |
YOU GIVE TO THE WORLD THROUGH YOUR OWN DEVELOPMENT
at this time, for you are preparing to give a greater gift than you have ever
given before. Thus, each day that you undertake the practice according to each
step that is given, you give a gift to the world. Why is this? It is because
you acknowledge your value and your worth. You acknowledge your Ancient Home
and your Ancient Destiny. You acknowledge those who sent you and those who will
receive you when you leave this world. All this is given to the world each time
you practice sincerely, upon each day, upon each hour. This is a greater gift
to the world than you can yet understand, but in time you will see the total
need that it fulfills.
THEREFORE, YOUR PRACTICE IS A GIFT TO THE WORLD,
for it gives that which you are affirming within yourself. What you affirm
within yourself you affirm for all individuals, in all circumstances, in all
worlds and in all dimensions. Thus, you affirm the reality of Knowledge. Thus,
you affirm your Ancient Home while you are here.
UPON THE HOUR, GIVE TO THE WORLD through your
practice of giving. Remind yourself of this. In your two longer practice
periods, give yourself completely into stillness and silence. Give of your
heart and give of your mind. Give all that you realize you can give, for this
is a gift to the world. Though you cannot as yet see the result, have
confidence that this giving will extend beyond your own mind and will touch all
minds in the universe, for all minds are truly joined in reality.
PRACTICE 149: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Bright orange poppies again, a picture symbolic of our
practice as our “gift to the world”, but the poppies are not as full and
vibrant as yesterday’s picture for our “gift to God,” nor as big. The
difference to me, as the basis of choice of pictures, is that God would see our
gifts fully, whereas the world is unlikely to see our gifts fully, or very much
at all, and also because they are not yet fully developed.
 |
|
“My practice is my gift to God.” Step - 148 of 365
|
From the journal Step - 148 My practice is
my gift to God.
Sunday,
January 14, 2001
8:10
a.m.→Rings of sophistication – moving out from central
cities, central places – the neighbor/peer problem.
Boundaries,
99% of the time, are meant to focus us inward to delimit the world, manager
responsibilities.
I
could write my testimony to the California committee on regions.
It's
not a question of if there are regions? They are already many regional schemes
– public-private.
The
challenge is to create alignment that creates stronger/more effective use of territory,
assets.
The
Walt Whitman of regions – Song of My Region.
I
ran the PDC as a networker, matchmaker, integrator, advocator, data-baser –
In
metro areas, coordination is the issue – with the need for increasing
sophistication required. In rural areas with multi-hubs – small towns/cities – a
network is used to increase the size of the market –
→An uncoordinated
future is bumpy.
→Future impacts
were not thought about when this development of sub-urbanization.
If
you (are big and) want to be fast, you must be accurate. Speed is increased
with accuracy. Designing and building for-speed than is reverse
engineering/organizing for accuracy – that's what I built @ PDC. Speed is not
the purpose/goal of Lillie's system. Too bad.
Wherever
you find boundaries, you will need intelligence to enable peaceful crossing –
are they boundaries or barriers – are they walls, liners or is osmosis designed
in. Where the gateways, the customs houses –
Where
is the veil/the veils/the lines of demarcation.
– because
there's growth and change, boundaries are temporary – they can become obsolete,
or out of fashion – but many never go away.
I
have important work here – much of the thinking has been revealed, but it isn't
organized, the graphics are in my mind, and the data hasn't been compiled.
Christoffel's Theory of Regional Community – like that of Einstein – is not yet
proven.
There
is nothing eternal about earth. Things here can be perpetual – if
sustained/sustainable.
→On earth, you
might only get perpetuity, not eternity.
Rural
prosperity through regional community networking. The goal is to infuse
technological support in the mundane so that higher levels of performance are
possible.
>
Design that simplifies can increase the potential for speed. Ornateness slows –
speed is not always the goal. God is still – creation whirls around the still
center.
"In
order to draw, you must be able to see." [re: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- by Betty Edwards – 1979]
>
There is no boundary-less world – Those seeking commercial advantage and having
illusions of power would wish to go anywhere, anytime – the world is one/the
universe is one, yet its structure is cellular – for organic life/manifestation
and atomic/molecular for the inorganic.
My
life as a mini-heretic. I've been through the Inquisition (did not recant on
Marie's performance) the crucifixion (transfer to Senior Planner); now I'm
working on the resurrection. In the Bardo transition time – it felt like I was
present is a ghost – I was dead and didn't know it.
World
of pain – we Know as souls the risks we take in entering the manifest world?
That's the gist of the spiritual communication. Here in body, self awakening is
various ways of throwing ourselves against walls – using pleasure to create
pain & punish ourselves, harm others – Others who precede us – the biological
parents – siblings, relatives – in their anger, pain, incompetence – can abuse
us – even for religious purpose – Yet – with all that risk and potential for
pain – souls come. We are bungee jumpers – with no rope – and risk
trauma/experience trauma – gauntlets we must go through, we choose to go
through.
I
want beauty & pain – then go to earth. Manifestation is not eternal, yet
it's not w/o use, purpose, consequence. We need to be conscious in order to
shape the future.
– I
think in testimony style, I'm addressing legislators – trying to communicate to
a person – I simply have to do what I have to do.
Everyone/every
organization maps a mono-polar world from where they sit. People who sit in
more than one place can have more than one mono-polar world – and those worlds
can be incompatible – because they don't see they created a mono-polar world –
The regional/global business man or woman who on city council is internally
focused by the boundaries.
–
You can't act w/o information & coordination. Bureaus are the repositories
of information for coordination.
– the
delimited region is the cauldron for community – niche/affinity/interest-based
community.
8:41
p.m. Ready for practice #2. I did #1 @ TLC. I met Bill L… there and we went to
lunch. He’s supportive and understanding of my work. A good friend. I intended
to hike, but didn't make it. Had a huge craving for food at 5 p.m. in spite of
breakfast at Shoney's.
Mom
called… She worries so… I'm being unburdened. Bill said I was in better shape
than when we first got together a few months ago.
Regional
Community becomes Local.
My
Local Region –
Regional
Beings: A Consequence of Suburbia –
Meaning,
purpose, direction – materializes –
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment