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| I am now penetrating the mystery of my life. Step 295 |
YOU ARE PENETRATING THE MYSTERY OF YOUR LIFE which seeks
to reveal itself to you. The mystery of your life is the source of all that is
manifest in your life. All that will be manifest and is intended to be manifest
is embodied in the mystery of your life. Therefore, your current engagement as
a student of Knowledge is absolutely fundamental to everything you will do in
the world and to everything you will realize and fulfill in this life. It is
absolutely fundamental to your need.
ALLOW THE MYSTERY TO BE MYSTERIOUS. Allow the
manifest to be manifest. In this way, you will enter the mystery of Knowledge
with reverence and openness, and you will engage yourself in the world with a
practical emphasis and a concrete approach. This will enable you to be a bridge
from your Ancient Home to this temporary world. Then, you will treat life in
the universe with reverence and awe, and you will treat your self-application
in the world with conciseness and responsibility. Here all your faculties will
be properly cultivated and integrated, and you will be a vehicle for Knowledge.
WE WILL NOW BEGIN A MORE ADVANCED SECTION of your curriculum.
You may realize that much of what you are learning you cannot yet understand.
Many of the steps to follow will be to activate your Knowledge, to make it
stronger and more present within you and to evoke within you the ancient memory
of your true relationships in the universe and the meaning of your purpose
here. Therefore, we will begin a series of lessons which you will not be able
to comprehend but with which you must become engaged. You are now penetrating the
mystery of your life. The mystery of your life holds all the promise for your
life.
REMEMBER YOUR LESSON THROUGHOUT THE DAY. Recite it
upon the hour and in your two deeper practice periods, enter into stillness and
peace. Allow yourself to penetrate the mystery of your life so that the mystery
of your life may be revealed to you. For all meaning, purpose and direction are
born of your origin and your destiny. You are a visitor within the world, and
your participation here must exemplify your greater life beyond the world. In
this way, the world is blessed and fulfilled. In this way, you will not betray
yourself, for you were born of a greater life, and Knowledge is abiding with
you to remind you of this.
PRACTICE 295: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
From the journal: Step
294- Review
June 9, 2001 – Saturday
Seeing the region – we need boundaries in order to
be able to use the region.
12:04 p.m. My mission – mowing the lawn, spreading
weedkiller/fertilizer?
4:19 p.m. Long Review – First – Dad's pacemaker
operation was successful. … Maybe I'll go to Wisconsin for a few weeks in July?
…
Lloyd is back in Sarah's life – but is Sarah lost?
No – comes the answer.
4:37 p.m. Begin Review – Step 294
[Points from note cards]
281
– Above all else seek K, for K will give you all else that you need. … Allow
your life to be transformed. Allow K to emerge so that you may be a vehicle for
its expression, for in this you will find happiness.
282
– Carrying K in the world requires responsibility. Your responsibility is to
follow K and to learn to express K adequately & purposefully. In this, your
human abilities will need to be cultivated and elevated. … You must … become a
worthy vehicle for it.
283
– As you abide with K, you will look upon the world and recognize its utter
confusion. This will teach you and remind you of the great need for Knowledge
in the world. K will never attack itself, and K is not in conflict with itself.
… (K) … has one purpose and one aim, and to this it organizes all activity. It
organizes all forms of opposition into serving one purpose and one direction.
Thus, it is the great peacemaker in the world. … Because you are learning to be
still, you are learning to be certain. Any individual who can acquire stillness
in the world will become a source of K in the world, …
284
– “How can stillness be a gift,
you may ask. It is a gift because it is an expression of certainty and peace.
285
– In stillness all things can be known,
for the mind is able to respond to K. Then, K will find expression in your
specific thoughts and activities. … 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 w/K is a great teaching of K and will impress and affect all minds in the world. …
Allow your deeper practice periods…to be times of true devotion, where you come
to the altar of God to give yourself … true church … true chapel. … It is only
required that you be a recipient of Knowledge. Do not stand apart and attempt
to understand it.
286
– Carry stillness with you.
Allow your inner life to be quiet as you move in the world of turbulence and
confusion. … K will organize your thinking and give it true uniformity and
direction. Carry stillness with you and be certain that all of your internal
conflicts will be resolved through K, for you are following the source of their
resolution.
287
– With K you cannot be at war. … War
is born of ambivalence where opposing value systems conflict with each other to
gain your recognition. Competing ideas, competing emotions and competing values
all wage war on one another, and you are caught in the middle of their great
battles. … With K you cannot be at war within yourself. … What you will
contribute will be greater than your actions or your words, for you will carry
stillness and peace into the world. Here you will not be in opposition to
anyone, though others may choose to be in opposition to you.
288
– There are no true enemies in life for
all war and conflict are born of confusion. This you must understand. A life w/o
K can only be confused and must create its own inner guidance system, which is
merely the ideas and beliefs with which it identifies itself. Thus, individuals
have their own individual purpose and self-identity. These evaluations clash
with those of other individuals, and thus one to one, group to group, nation to
nation and world to world, war is generated and waged. … Recognize, then, that all war and conflict simply express a
lack of capacity for those involved to join. When individuals join, they
recognize a common need, which becomes their primary need. This must be born of
K and not idealism if it is to be actualized. … Dedicate yourself today today
to ending war within the world by ending war within yourself so that you may be
a peacemaker and a peacekeeper. … you must learn to see as K sees, to think as
K thinks and to act as K acts.
289
– Today I am a student of K. … Realize that you cannot comprehend K; you can
only receive it. You can only experience its extension through your life into
the world.
290
– I can only be a student; therefore I will be a student of Knowledge.
291
– Be grateful to those who demonstrate
the need for K. … Be grateful to all those who seem to err against you,
for they will show you what is necessary in your life, and they will remind you
that Knowledge is your one true purpose, your one true goal and your one true
expression.
292
– You have come into the world to learn and unlearn.
293
– I do not wish to suffer today.
294
– Review
Your
key points may be different, but this is a way to focus when doing the review.
Let us continue.
NNC
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