Today: Step 337 - Alone I can do
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| Alone I can do nothing. Step 337 |
ALONE YOU CAN DO NOTHING, but you are not alone. Yes,
you are an individual, but you are greater than an individual. Thus it is that
you cannot be alone, and thus it is that your individuality has great promise
and purpose in the world. Thus it is that you who are part of the greatness
that is greater than your individuality and you who are part of your
individuality as well become whole and unified. In this, everything that you
have constructed for yourself is turned for good. All of your creations are given
purpose, meaning, direction and inclusion in life. Thus, your life is redeemed
and reclaimed, and you become part of life and a vehicle for its unique
expression. This is the true meaning of today’s lesson.
ONLY IN THE SHADOWS AND THE DARKNESS OF IMAGINATION
can you hide from the light of truth. You must believe that you are alone to think
that your imaginings are real. To learn that you are not alone at first may
seem fearful because you are afraid that your imaginings and guilt would be
revealed. Yet, as you consider this honestly and without condemnation, you
realize that it means that you have been reclaimed, rejuvenated and are now
being prepared to receive the power that abides with you, the power that is
your Source and True Self.
REPEAT TODAY’S IDEA UPON THE HOUR and realize that
it is an affirmation of your strength and inclusion in life. In your deeper meditations
allow yourself to re-enter the stillness of your sanctuary of Knowledge where
it will become evident that you are not alone. Here you are in true marriage
with life and in true union with those who have come to serve you and guide you
and with those who practice with you now. In your inclusion is your happiness.
In your isolation is your misery. Your misery has no foundation, for you are
not alone and your success is guaranteed, for alone you can do nothing.
PRACTICE 337: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Yesterday: Step
336 – Review
First: Review – Points from note cards
323
– “…allow your world to support your practice. Make this dedication - “My role
in the world is too important to neglect” every day
324 – Do not judge another today. Learn to see. Learn to hear. Learn to look. … those
whom you love and those whom you despise all offer gifts to you of equal value.
325
– …those who oppose the evolution of the world will fight against it. Those
who wish to further the advancement of the world will attempt to fortify the
goodness of humanity and the sense that humanity is one community that must
nurture and support itself beyond all division of nation, race, religion,
culture and tribe. … It is the collective experience of Knowledge in the world
that moves the world towards union and community. … Because your world is part of a Greater
Community, it is moving towards union and community … you will see that the
world is attempting to become one community, for it seeks to extend itself into
the GC. The GC represents a community that is calling upon humanity to enter
and to participate. You cannot understand the mechanism for this …
326
– The GC is something I can feel but cannot understand. … Here all
individuality seeks community, for in community it finds its true expression,
its true contribution and its true role. This is as true for you as it is for
the world. You can feel this. … You can know this, for this idea is born of K
… understanding is not necessary here. … Remember
that you will understand that you will understand as you proceed, for
understanding is born of hindsight and true application. … you may experience the
GC and not separate yourself in attempting to understand it.
327
– As you abide with K, feel K and carry K out into the world, within yourself
you will be still, though on the outside you may be actively engaged.
328
– Your ideas concerning giving are far too limited and small. … If there were
no denial of Knowledge in the world, you could not learn here.
329
– Only the free can love the world because only they can see that the world
has supported and served them to enable them to become free and to become
contributors to the world.
330
– Remember you are not attempting to escape the world, but are working on
becoming powerful within the world. … Be attentive to the little things … If
you do not fear them, you will not resist them. If you do not resist them [and
then] be able to attend to them [and express K in them]. The world does not
understand that God expresses God everywhere and that K expresses itself
everywhere and in all things.
331
– The smallest creature can express the greatest truth. The simplest thing can
express the power of the universe. … As you become attentive to life, you will
begin to witness the mystery of life in all things. … You may feel small, but
you express the great.
332
– When you accept that you are only beginning to comprehend the meaning of your
life and the meaning of K within your life, this frees you to participate and
to learn more.
333
– Remember that you are not alone, and you will not become isolated in your own
thoughts. You will not become isolated in your own fearful considerations.
334
– Every day, no matter where you are,
no matter where you go, the presence of your Teachers is with you. … (they) will
give to you the ideas and inspiration that you need … The fire of K is with you
every day.
335
– Wherever you go, whatever you do,
the fire of Knowledge is burning within you.
336
– Review
From the journal:
Saturday,
July 21, 2001
6:30
a.m. My future – Preaching the Gospel of Cooperation, the message of Greater
Communities; the message of regional intelligence; of one human race; of the
comm-unity of life; of the map of life – the tree of life is a map of life; of
the whole earth and the regional part, of balancing competition, and of
relations with the greater community.
We
are headed to Wisconsin this day. It is a vacation. First Stop – Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. Sunday to Two Rivers – then Madison – 1 state – perhaps to meet
Bill S…
Watertown?
–
My
Goals For the trip
–
Peace with Cindy
–
Hug Mom & Dad and thank them once again.
–
Cross Lake Michigan on the car ferry – a childhood vision – can you see both
sides from the middle?
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Continue my Steps practice
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Read, think, refine, let emerge the RI-RC strategy
–
Enjoy life.
T-om Su-ne
Tom Christoffel
As before, I often sign my name in my journal as an act of affirmation. I
find travel useful in that I get a chance to see new things and do so
differently. It is a good time to practice the skills these practices are
giving us. Not all can be recorded. It is just the nature of life in this aspect
of the separation, what many call reality. 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
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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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