Today: CT Step 20 - Today I will not forget that I am here for a greater purpose. (MP3)
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| Today I will not forget that I am here for a greater purpose. CT Step 20 |
You are indeed here for a greater purpose. But do
not define that purpose for yourself because at the appointed time, it will
become known to you. It will not simply be the result of personal preference or
ambition. It will be something that will be felt and deeply known. It will be
real, and you will know it to be true. Until that point, you are building the
foundation for that recognition. When you build a house, you do not build the
upper floors first. You start with the foundation and you build up. You do not
begin by laying the wallpaper and putting in the furnishings, for there is
nothing to contain them. You begin by building the foundation and the primary
structure of the building. You do this in a step-by-step manner. You follow a
plan. You develop skills along the way. You exercise skills you already have.
And you learn new ones as well.
Therefore, today practice this building exercise in
your long practice in stillness and in your hourly practices in awareness and
discernment. Build this inner awareness, this position of observing without
condemnation in order to know. You need to know. You want to know.
Practice 20: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Leuven, Belgium - April 9, 2009
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link
to the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps CT Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge Continuation Training - Working file
From the journal:
10:18
a.m. Thursday, September 13, 2001
–
"I will observe the world today". To be a human on the planet you've
got to be able to deal with disaster. That can only be done with community – we
are all subject to traumatic events – the risk of living.
11:21
p.m. September 13 – Still. The attack on America is an attack on humanity
because, by migration and integration and marriage and offspring – virtually
all aspects – cultures – languages – believes have gathered here in the U.S.
The U.S. = humanity – therefore attack generates resilience and strength.
Post
9/11. I see this as an attack on humanity and record the thought. If I’d not
been a Student of Steps to Knowledge, would I have reacted the same? We continue.
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest, but this is the
first time you’ve seen 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. Begin at
the beginning.
If you do know about Steps, but have not done Steps
twice completely, read the related materials, and have a sense of the direction
of this study, you won’t get the experience. The Introduction begins:
“This is the Steps
to Knowledge Continuation Training. It is designed to build upon the Steps
that were learned in Steps to Knowledge to
enable you to experience the grace, the power and the direction of Knowledge in
your life and to become an expression of Knowledge in everything that you do.
If you have completed the book, Steps to
Knowledge, twice through and have followed the instructions as they were
given without altering the curriculum in any way, then you are now ready to
begin this more advanced study”.
If you are an independent student, that is
certainly an option. 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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