TODAY REVIEW THE PAST TWO WEEKS OF PREPARATION. Read
each day’s instructions and then review your experience of practice for that
day. Begin with the first day in the two-week period, and follow each day step
by step. You will now begin to review your preparation in two-week intervals. This
is given you to do now because your perception and comprehension are beginning
to bud and to grow.
REMEMBER EACH DAY. Try to recall your practice and
experience. The lessons themselves will recall this experience to you if you
have forgotten. Try to see the progression of learning so that you may understand
how to learn. Try to see that which confirms Knowledge and that which denies
Knowledge within yourself so that you may learn to work with these tendencies.
BECOMING A TRUE STUDENT OF KNOWLEDGE will require
greater self-discipline, greater consistency of application and greater
acceptance of worth than anything you have undertaken thus far. Following prepares
you to become a leader, for all great leaders are great followers. If the
source of your leadership represents goodness and truth, then you surely must
learn to follow it. And to follow it, you must learn how to learn of it, how to
receive it and how to give it.
LET YOUR LONG REVIEW TIME TODAY, which may exceed
two hours of involvement, be a review of the past two weeks, keeping all of these
things in mind. Become objective about your life. There is no condemnation that
is necessary here, for you are learning to learn, you are learning to follow
and you are learning to employ Knowledge, as Knowledge will certainly employ
you. Here Knowledge and you come together in true matrimony and in true
harmony. Then Knowledge is more powerful, and you are more powerful. There is
no inequality here, and all things find their natural course of expression.
USE THIS REVIEW TO FURTHER and deepen your
comprehension of your preparation, keeping in mind that understanding always
comes in hindsight. This is a great truth in The Way of Knowledge.
PRACTICE 196: One long practice period.
From the journal: Step
195 - Knowledge is more powerful than I realize.
6:35
a.m. Friday, March 2, 2001 – Up early to download ARC Explorer – but am
involved in an email reply to Bill F... about regions. I need some good
dialogues to hone my ideas> bring them out better.
4:18
p.m. A "where did it go" afternoon. Went to Ron L…'s retirement roast
– talked about continuing education – one thing I forgot to say was that
continuing ed brought the college to the community.
4:40
p.m. Re-did the ESRI download in Windows – and I've something to work with. Took
the wrong road – over my head… learn and learn and learn again.
Practice
#1 "Knowledge is more powerful than I realize."
10:45
p.m. Where am I? In my rocker in my study, browsing through a book about
exploration – looking at the pictures. Many maps – the settlement of the world
– displacement of the illiterate by the literate (?)
On the Steps page for this day, in blue ink, I
diagram the relationships set out in the text. This is undated. The blue ink does not match the
prior or following pages, so this is from a later time.
There will be more of that in
the future. It is another thing that you can do as well. Art is not the goal,
simply trying to out-picture relationships presented.
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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