x2 Step 249 - Alone I can do nothing. – Journal – Step 248

Today:  Step 249 - Alone I can do nothing. (MP3)

Alone I can do nothing. Step 249

ALONE YOU CAN DO NOTHING, for nothing in life is done alone. This is so very obvious if you simply observe the activity around you. No one is doing anything alone. This is so very true; it cannot be denied if you look upon the world honestly. Even if you were alone on a mountaintop without another soul in sight, you would not be alone, for your Teachers would be with you, and everything that you would accomplish there would be a joint effort, as everything that you accomplish with other people is a joint effort. This affirms the intrinsic nature of relationships and gives complete evidence to the fact that nothing can be done alone. In this, you must learn to value your relationships, for they are the vehicles for accomplishment in all areas and in all avenues of expression.

THEREFORE, WE EMPHASIZE THE VALUE of your relationships to you who now seek to reclaim Knowledge. These relationships must be imbued with the Knowledge that you are reclaiming. Then they will have the stability, the efficacy and the grace that Knowledge contains for you. For only relationships based upon Knowledge can carry the Wisdom that Knowledge will exert within the world. Relationships based upon personal attraction or personal fantasy do not have the foundation to carry Knowledge and will fail abruptly in the presence of the demands and requirements of a true life.

THEREFORE, AS YOU RECLAIM KNOWLEDGE, you also learn the lessons of relationships. Remind yourself of this upon the hour and witness the obviousness of today’s lesson in whatever context you find yourself. If you look, you will see that nothing can be done alone—on any level, in any avenue. Nothing can be done alone. There is no individual creativity. There is no individual contribution. There is no individual invention. The only thing that can be made alone is fantasy, and in this a great deal has been produced. But even this is shared and fortified as each individual fortifies it within his or her own imagination. Therefore, even illusion is shared and substantiated through relationship. Nothing can be done alone. Even illusion cannot be done alone. There is no escape from this. Yet, the fact that there is no escape from life is the true promise of your redemption, for here life will redeem you, and all that you have brought into the world will

be activated and contributed.

IN YOUR DEEPER PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, bring yourself to Knowledge and bring yourself to your Teachers in stillness and humility. Realize that you can do nothing alone. Even your attempt to discipline your mind and to prepare yourself for meditation is something you share with others who are practicing and with your Teachers as well. All power of God can be expressed through you, for nothing can be done alone.

PRACTICE 249: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

Yesterday:  Step 248 - I will rely upon the Wisdom of the universe to instruct me.

Another Step linking the elements of a greater reality: “Rely upon the Wisdom of the universe, which is available to you within your Knowledge, which is stimulated by the presence of your Teachers.”  How might that be visualized? I asked this question in 2014 as I posted year one. Then I didn’t try to have a picture for every Step.

 

This is what was used, this illustration from Dante’s “Divine Comedy” Paradiso, Canto 19 The blessed souls form an eagle in the sky by Gustave Doré.

Why would we have such attention? The reason perhaps is given in the last paragraph from Step 248:

Year two I wrote: “I am life’s servant,” in response to what the Step has revealed about the Student’s relationship to life: “you who are its servant.” This resonates with me now as it did then. It passes the freedom test for truth.

From the journal:  

April 24, 2001 Tuesday

12:01 p.m. It is calm enough to listen again. Lots happened today in terms of making contacts. … People are hearing what I'm saying.

I know this is an emergence. It comes through me and the combined work of the RHG –

– World without end, Amen.

– This I got yesterday or this morning as I was trying to stoke up my energy.

– Things rarely come to a halt. Someone picks up the load – they may go in another direction – unknowing of the trend of the recent path – or if a knowing one is present – they don't ask.

So – I/we are here for our part long-term & present –

9 p.m. Step 248 – I will rely upon the Wisdom of the Universe to instruct me.

It is this late and I'm doing Practice #1 – though my meeting with Rick S… was a long, important and hard lesson. Rick was teaching as we were networking our ideas. He did point out that I was a debater – hitting every one of his points with a new viewpoint, being as he said – either or. So… I'll seek to continue to work with him. …

The Knowledgeable ones in the Universe were giving me instruction all day.

Rick S … was the most direct – and I thanked him for it. He said I was saying "no, but" in response to his points.

This was told to me for years ago in Ability Potentials. The note I made for my dashboard reminder is begin "yes and" – to show agreement before I add to taking – or seeking to take the discussion higher.

9:40 p.m. PC problems. Burning time.

Learning, learning, learning. Inside one’s skin it is challenging. Reading about those challenges in another's life, perhaps not so interesting. 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.