x2 Step 284 - Stillness is my gift to the world. – Journal – Step 283

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Stillness is my gift to the world. Step 284

HOW CAN STILLNESS BE A GIFT, you may ask. It is a gift because it is an expression of certainty and peace. How can stillness be a gift to the world? Because your stillness allows Knowledge to express itself through you. How can stillness be a gift to the world? Because your stillness enables all other minds to be still so that they may know. A mind in conflict cannot be still. A mind that is desperately seeking for resolution cannot be still. A mind that is turbulent with its own evaluations cannot be still. Thus, as you present the stillness that you are now cultivating to the world, you give all other minds that recognize you the opportunity and the demonstration that will enable them to enter stillness themselves. You are, in essence, communicating that peace and freedom are possible and that there is a great presence of Knowledge in the world, calling upon each separated and tormented mind.

YOUR STILLNESS IS A GIFT. It will calm all minds. It will still all controversies. It will have a calming, soothing effect on all who suffer under the weight of their own imagination. This, then, is a great gift. It is not your only gift, for you will also give through your ideas, your actions and your accomplishments in the world. Here you will demonstrate the evolving qualities of mind that are required of you as a student of Knowledge. Yet, of all that you may contribute to the world, your stillness will have the greatest effect, for in stillness you will resonate with all other minds, you will calm all other minds and you will be extending true peace into the world and the freedom that it demonstrates.

TODAY REMEMBER THE IMPORTANCE OF STILLNESS upon the hour. Look about at the world of turbulence and realize its great application there. In your two deeper meditation practices, give yourself again to stillness. Allow yourself to escape the ambivalence and uncertainty that haunt you and that hold you back. Come closer to the realm of stillness, which is the realm of Knowledge, for there you will find peace and certainty. This is God’s gift to you, and this will be your gift to the world.

PRACTICE 284: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

From the journal:  

1:58 a.m. Tuesday, May 29, 2001

– Home – Front Royal – in my rocker. The debriefing – my goals of 8:52 a.m. – Friday, May 25 were met

1. I met with other students

2. Asked questions and

3. Determined the core group to be valid.

Thus I am ready to support The Society.

When I left, it felt like I was leaving family. That is a first for any such gathering I've ever attended.

Except for fatigue – I feel clear at this moment. I don't know what to do next. That, I'm sure, will come.

11:25 a.m. Tuesday, May 29 – The earth's challenge is to become a global society – it is a spiritual and cultural challenge. Crossing boundaries locally – RI – is a start.

Dear Tom,

Welcome. Welcome to this depth.

Nasi Novare Coram

T-om Su-ne

7:31 p.m. Back from an afternoon trip to Manassas – Vienna – with Cindy who took the day off. I'm tired – and have to do my website design homework.

This morning, thinking of work, I thought, "I only need it for my paycheck, not for my identity".

Reflecting today on the RI need – it is still there. There must be grassroots empowerments – regions as a model of my local planet. The humanity connection can't be top-down.

Practice #2 Step 283 – "The world is ambivalent, but I am not".

11:39 p.m. I was ready to go to bed @ 8:30 p.m., but needed to do my web assignment. I was tired, but got a second wind – Knowing I couldn't do it in the a.m. I sent emails to GC friends – and started one for Marshall & Patricia.

> What could I do for them? … Go for a WFS [World Future Society] clientele? RFN [Religious Futurists Network] –

→ It will take some time to absorb and integrate what I've experienced. Both RI and Local Planet Humanity seem valid for work.

Amen & Amen

Thomas J. Christoffel

The journey to Boulder was quite important for me. The work to understand Steps has continued for many years. I’ve experienced growth, yet there is so much more to be learned, to understand.

NNC

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