Today: Step 285 - In stillness
all things can be known. (MP3)
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Step 285 - In stillness all things can be known.
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IN STILLNESS ALL THINGS CAN BE KNOWN, for the mind
is able to respond to Knowledge. Then, Knowledge will find expression in your
specific thoughts and activities. Your mind was meant to serve Knowledge, as
your body was meant to serve your mind. In this, the contribution from your
True Home is able to express itself in the world of exile. Here Heaven and
Earth touch, and when they touch, true communication begins to exist, and the
transference of Knowledge is made into the world.
YOU ARE PREPARING TO BECOME A VEHICLE FOR KNOWLEDGE
so that all things that you accomplish, great and small, unique and mundane,
will express the presence of Knowledge. Therefore, your function in the world is
not grand; it is simple. It is what is expressed through your activity that is
important, for the simplest action done with Knowledge is a great teaching of
Knowledge and will impress and affect
all minds in the world.
THEREFORE, REMIND YOURSELF UPON THE HOUR TODAY of
the importance of cultivating stillness and the immediate freedom from anxiety
and conflict that it provides for you. Allow your deeper practice periods today
to be times of true devotion, where you come to the altar of God to give yourself.
This, in essence, is the true church. This is the true chapel. This is where
prayer becomes real and where your mind, which is an expression of God’s Mind,
in stillness, humility and openness, yields itself to its great source. In
this, God blesses you and gives to you a gift to give to the world which is the
result of your own development.
ALL THIS IS TRANSPIRED IN STILLNESS, for in
stillness the transference of Knowledge can be completed. This is absolutely
natural and totally beyond your comprehension. Therefore, you need not spend
energy and time speculating about it, wondering about it or trying to
comprehend its mechanism. This is not necessary. It is only required that you
be a recipient of Knowledge. Do not stand apart and attempt to understand it.
DO NOT STAND APART TODAY BUT ENTER STILLNESS, for
this is God’s gift to you. In stillness the transference of Knowledge will be made.
With this, you become a vehicle for Knowledge in the world.
PRACTICE 285: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
From the journal: Step
284 - Stillness is my gift to the world.
10:10
PM. May 30, 2001. Back to work. Got a lot done. Tomorrow technology counsel –
award to Joe Callahan.
Where
am I? The RI is still quite important.
After several intense days in Boulder, lots of
thought and writing, I’m back at work – and the journal is lean. I often ask in
writing: Where am I? This is the second half of “Step 2 - Knowledge is with me. Where am I?” It is what has been called a “centering” practice.
One has to stop to answer it and that, like an hourly, can put one back on
track. Getting distracted in the world is quite easy. 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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