x2 Step 181 - Today I receive the love of Knowledge.– Journal – Step 180

Today: Step 181 - Today I receive the love of Knowledge. (MP3)

“Today I receive the love of Knowledge.” Step 181

KNOWLEDGE POSSESSES THE TRUE SEED OF LOVE, not love that is a mere sentiment, not love that is a form of intoxication surrounding an urgent desire born of fear. Knowledge is the seed of true love, not the love that seeks to conquer, to possess and to dominate, but the love that seeks to serve, to empower and to free another. Become the recipient of this love today so that it may flow through you to the world, for without your denial it will most surely do this.

UPON THE HOUR, REPEAT THIS STATEMENT and feel its full impact, regardless of the circumstance that you find yourself in. Allow each circumstance to support your practice, and you will find that your practice will have an increasingly potent effect on your external life. In your two deeper practices today, enter into the presence of Knowledge and receive its love. Affirm your worthiness and your receptivity. Relinquish your presumptions about yourself and the world, and allow yourself to have an experience that will demonstrate the truth beyond any assumption. This is your practice today. This is your gift to yourself, to your world and to your Creator so that you may receive the gift of love.

PRACTICE 181: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Note: “Knowledge is the seed of true love…that seeks to serve, to empower and to free another.”

From the journal:  Step 180 - I complain because I am lacking Knowledge

 

8:30 a.m. Thursday, February 15, 2001

→Thesis: The greater the degree to which States with substate regions have aligned state program analysis and delivery with those regions, the greater the efficiency of government and therefore a higher rate of economic growth.

Further, as the aligned regions benefit States, they empower local governments for cooperative problem-solving, and the regional alignments become the basis for regional communities. This structure of data/geography/community can be used to benefit citizens, nonprofits, business and industry as they operate at various levels of regional geography and community.

Thus – the future belongs to regions.

> I need inspiration, discipline, positive feedback and allocation of resources.

Practice #2 – Step-179. A year ago, January 12, 2000 when I reached this step, I was in a strange place. "Today I will thank the world for teaching me what is true."

12:04 a.m. February 16, 2001 – Yesterday's practice, which I completed once, still got me the lesson as I saw how in the new PDC team – I was no longer alone and could accomplish more. It is strange – but I'm not hurt and can be more giving to the world. I received many gifts from the world. It is a new perspective.

Mostly worldly work thinking this day, which continues to grow as potential work in the world. As in the past, skip over what does not meet your needs. The primary purpose of this Blog is to make the Steps available on-line on a daily basis.

The Step page does have some notes. At the very top in green ink, year one, is my attempt at a comical and ironic phrase: The world is “Yes and Know.” Blue ink is year two. Inserted in the first line is “Life stinks,” a strong complaint and therefore a strong call for Knowledge.

At the bottom: “All the world is a stage. The world has given me a place to play my role. Some scripted, some improve. Connecting dots to make sense.

Doing this Step again today, June 29, 2015 – this phrase stood out: “You are learning now to discover your greatness and your domination over the world.” As far as the notion of one’s: “domination over the world,” this is the only place in the New Message materials I have that such a thought appears. 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.

x2 Step 180 - I complain because I am lacking Knowledge – Journal – Step 179

Today: Step 180 - I complain because I am lacking Knowledge. (MP3)

“I complain because I am lacking Knowledge.” Step 180

WHEN YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT LIFE, you are asking for Knowledge. Knowledge has its own statement about life, but it is very different from the lament which you hear within yourself and around you. Therefore, as you approach Knowledge today, recognize the nature of complaint—how it emphasizes your weakness and the world’s domination over you and how much it is in contrast to what you are learning now. You are learning now to discover your greatness and your domination over the world. You are in relationship with the world. Let this relationship become healthy and meaningful. Let the world’s contribution be given to you. Let your contribution be given to the world.

THEREFORE, THANK THE WORLD ONCE AGAIN TODAY for what it has given to you. In your deeper meditation practices today, enter stillness and silence. Use the word RAHN to help you enter this deeply. Use the word RAHN to orient your mind and thinking so that your mind may become unified with the sound of this one ancient word.

THIS IS A DAY OF IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION. Do not complain about this day. Recognize that everything that happens is an opportunity for you to apply your practice and to develop the true faculties of your mind. Your complaint would only be a denial of the world’s contribution to you. Therefore, do not deny this. Do not complain about the world today so that you may receive its gifts.

PRACTICE 180: Two 30-minute practice periods.

Where else do we complain, either silently or out loud, than when waiting in line? The picture is at a railroad ticket counter in Piacenza, Italy. Is tolerating the slowness of people really a problem of Knowledge? Sometimes it is while other times it is an exercise that builds our skill of being patient.

From the journal:  Step 179 - Today I will thank the world for teaching me what is true.

7:15 a.m. Wednesday, February 14, 2001 – "The world you see thus far is largely the fantasy of individuals." In today's lesson – I am to look at how the world teaches the true by showing the false.

Where am I? Have I yet learned what is true and what is false? I Know the temporary – those things that stimulate and how living for stimulation is what humans get caught up in. Stillness contrasts with movement. Is movement the false? Why have a body if you're not going to move?

What do I seek in the world? I already have wealth in my experience of the world due to development of my mind. I enjoy nature – where I am. I do not need to travel great distances for experience, but I experience when I travel. As for the present & future, I just want basic comfort – for myself and others – the opportunity to work to it.

I have sought spirit, but picked up false ideas – that being good would lead to a financial foundation. I slipped away from that necessity to lay a financial foundation.

ACIM/other spirit programs did not work for me. S2K is realistic if not truth – so I see its precepts proving to be true in my life on earth and in the greater life I feel that I have.

If I were still unaware of my greater life, I’d be wrapped up in the race. Accepting that and understanding it has been slow. Many want to overstate it – "they are God." Being one with God is quite different.

This day the entry was all about the Step. Today, June 28, 2015 I have nothing to add to this, or take away. I only see that I’ve made progress and will not quibble at this time. 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.

x2 Step 179 - Today I will thank the world for teaching me what is true. – Journal – Step 178

Today:  Step 179 - Today I will thank the world for teaching me what is true. (MP3)

“Today I will thank the world for teaching me what is true.” Step 179

THE WORLD IN ITS GRANDEUR AND IN ITS FOLLY teaches you what to value and to recognize what is true. Contrast must be evident in learning for you to make these distinctions. To distinguish what is true from what is false and what is meaningful from what is meaningless, you must have contrast in learning. You must taste the meaningless to find out its true nature and content, and you must taste the meaningful to find out its true nature and content. The world continuously provides you the opportunity to do both.

AT THIS TIME YOUR NEED IS TO TASTE THE TRUE INCREASINGLY, and that is why we emphasize this in your daily practice now. You have already indulged yourself in the false so sufficiently that it has dominated your mind and attention. Now we feed you the true, but you must also learn to benefit from what the false has given you. Then you will need to investigate the false no more. The false has already presented itself to you. Now you are learning to recognize its presentation and to utilize what benefit it can offer you. The only benefit the false can offer you is to learn to recognize its lack of substance so that you may desire to know what is true and have greater capacity to receive it.

THUS, THANK THE WORLD TODAY FOR SUPPORTING YOU, for its grandeur and for its folly, for its moments of inspiration and for its great display of illusion. The world you see so far is largely comprised of the fantasy of individuals, but there is a greater world for you to see, a world that is actually there, a world that will arouse in you Knowledge, appreciation and true self-application as well.  For it is your purpose to serve the evolution of this world, as it is the world’s purpose to serve your evolution.

IN YOUR TWO LONGER PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, investigate this idea actively with your mind. Apply your mind to understanding how the world has supported you. Think very carefully about this. This is not a superficial investigation. It is an investigation that you must conduct with necessity and with seriousness, for it will determine your experience in life, both in the present and in the future.

UPON THE HOUR, REMEMBER OUR STATEMENT for today and keep it in mind when you view the world. Do not let this day be wasted upon you. This day is a day of recognition, a day of gratitude and a day of Wisdom.

PRACTICE 179: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Note:  “Now we feed you the true, but you must also learn to benefit from what the false has given you. Then you will need to investigate the false no more. The false has already presented itself to you.”

From the journal:  Step 178 - I will remember those who have given to me today.

7:43 a.m. Tuesday, February 13, 2001 – Regional Water Supply.

8:55 p.m. Reading GCW II – "Pleasure."

The Waters Supply meeting was good – but the needed change in land-use – minimizing individual well and septic households – will not happen. It needs to be proven that units on central sewer and water/urban/town units – cost the county less. Development costs need to be equalized. Rural lot – single unit well/septic ought to cost more – environmental controls be stricter. Good development drive out bad?

No Steps reference this day and little GCW. Steps is not my entire life. It will be at some times.

Today, June 27, on waking and looking for my journal, I realized I left it in a McDonald's in Maryland. Called there; they’d not had anything turned in for lost and found. So, I have a loss for the period February 13, 2015 to June 26, 2015. Carrying things around is a risk. Be aware yourself, as will have to be to a greater degree.  

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.