Today: Step 239 - Freedom is
mine today. (MP3)
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| Step 239 - Freedom is mine today. |
FREEDOM IS YOURS WHO LIVE WITH KNOWLEDGE. Freedom is
yours who need not burden yourself with the undue strain of unnecessary
thinking and speculation. Freedom is yours who can dedicate yourself to your
one purpose and to your specific tasks that emanate from this purpose. What
greater freedom is there than the freedom to utilize your Knowledge and to
fulfill its destiny in the world? Nothing else can be called freedom, for
anything else is merely the freedom to be in chaos and to degenerate into
misery.
YOU ARE FREE THIS DAY TO ALLOW KNOWLEDGE to abide
with you. This day in your hourly practice and in your two deeper meditations, remember
that you are free. When you have the freedom to be with Knowledge in your two
meditation periods, allow yourself to enter stillness and let not any feeling,
idea or thought dissuade you from experiencing the great freedom that you have
to escape from the world into Knowledge.
THESE PRACTICE TIMES ARE SO IMPORTANT for your
overall wellbeing. The result of this involvement will give you greater access
to Knowledge in all of your outward endeavors as you learn to abide in peace
with Knowledge and as you learn to follow Knowledge as it exercises its Wisdom in the world. You are free this day to
be with Knowledge, for this day you are free.
PRACTICE 239: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
First, review points
from the note cards:
225 – “A mind that is serious in
its outward direction and lighthearted in its internal delight will be a mind
that is fully integrated. This will be a mind where Heaven and Earth touch”.
226 – K is with you and when you are w/K you will not be afraid.
227 – “In time, you will realize
the distinction between the true and the false and will not be deceived by the
pretense the false can make in its imitation of the true.”
228 – “I will not be poor today”. “You are greater than the errors that
you perceive, and they cannot deceive you if you look at them objectively”.
229 –
“I will not blame another for my pain”.
“Without
condemnation, the world is so relieved that it can begin to recover itself”.
230 – “When you realize that you
are confused, then you can claim the means to regain your certainty”.
231 – “Your purpose in this world
is to reclaim your Knowledge and to allow your Knowledge to express itself”. “…
you are made specifically for something that you have not yet comprehended”.
232 – “You proceed by giving yourself to your preparation.
The power of doing this will strengthen those with whom you will be engaged in
your life’s calling”.
233 – You are part of a Greater Force
for good, for this force is joined and directed by K. K here is beyond what any
individual can own. Therefore, there is no “your” knowledge and “my” knowledge;
there is only KNOWLEDGE. There is only your interpretation and my
interpretation, and in this there can be discrepancies, but K is K. It leads
people together; it takes people apart. If it is truly comprehended from
stillness and objectivity, its true direction can be discerned and followed.
234 – … K can permeate even the
smallest word and the tiniest gesture. Thus, they too can have the greatest
impact upon others. The power of K within one individual is to activate the
power of K in other individuals and thus stimulate and support the regeneration
of life within minds that are living in separate fantasies. – “Do not think you
know. … the opportunity for self-deception is still with you because you have
not yet been willing to face yourself completely, fearing that what you would
find would discourage or destroy you. Yet, when you face yourself completely,
all you will find is Knowledge”.
235 – “… each day you must
practice because of the desire for Knowledge, and each practice develops your
capability to experience Knowledge”.
236 – With K you will know what to do… Here you must be prepared to
act and act boldly. … Do not make small attempts at resolving your
problems, for w/o K your attempts will be meaningless and will compound your
frustration. … If Knowledge is still, you may be
still as well.
237 – …your intellect can be used
to deal with the physical necessities of your life, the particulars of your
life and the mechanism of your life, for this is the application of the
intellect. Yet, the greatness of K provides purpose, meaning and direction,
which the intellect can never provide. Therefore, the intellect is a faculty
that has a true function here, for it serves the greatness of K – there is no
event or interaction which Knowledge cannot bless and harmonize..
238 –
Review – invocation “I am sent into the world to serve my Spiritual
Family which serves this world and all worlds in the physical universe. I am
part of a Greater Force for good, and I am a beginning student of Knowledge. I
am grateful for the gift that has been given, which I am now beginning to
comprehend. In complete faithfulness and devotion, I will continue my practice
today so that I may appreciate the value of my own life.”
From the journal:
April
14, 2001
7:30
a.m. A sunny Saturday seeking to reduce externals. I guess music/TV
distractions take away. I used to do it some to distract my brain. Too much
would come through. Now I'll just let what comes – come and not hold back. On
the radio – the Peoples' Pharmacy, now The Peoples' Regional Community.
Regional
Communities –
10:29
a.m. Vibration – stopping along Route 17 @ Geico – rear tire.
I've
not been using my intellect very well – to manage my life in the world – dream
– the happy dream – it's not too late recovering from "spiritual
welfare".
3:42
p.m. At A.R.E.
For Step 238 – Review
4:58
p.m. As I review my practice, I see/feel the LFPDC fading from me – I need it
less – I've learned and set up what I could. It is prologue to RI.
8:41
p.m. At Penny Sisson's – Did my review at A.R.E. – but not review of daily
entries for the past two weeks. I went out shopping – ended up at Janaf Shopping
Center – across from where I lived in 1970. The shoppers were mostly black. A
different people culturally – hard to accept my reactions – more caution… normal
I suppose, but a barrier to unity –? Diversity/must be accepted… it will take
the external. Is S2K real or an attempt to push unity? Alien presence could not
be faked…
9:24
p.m. Beginning review of past two weeks of the journal. As usual, there is
plenty there – the muse comes through often – a working family in spirit→ I serve… and am open. I could work with a state
agency like VDOT – it gets complex, but the planning framework has to be
changed – it costs the earth a lot for Americans to live as they do.
Web
publishing – content – on my site…
>
we are gestating something big. It seems right at this moment (bourbon
influenced) to say "we" henceforth – rather than I.
The optimism of the early days of the web and
website development is evident. Travel stimulates thinking. 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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