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| Today I wish to know. CT Step 18 |
It is your desire for Knowledge and your capacity
for Knowledge that will make it available to you. Today’s lesson is not a
demand. It is an affirmation of your intention. You can demand Knowledge to
come to you, but it will not come, for it knows whether you are ready or not,
and if there is no place for it to enter, it cannot enter. Here there must be
no deception in your approach. There must be no manipulation in order to gain a
personal advantage. Instead, you affirm your desire for Knowledge.
Affirm your desire for Knowledge in your long
practice in stillness today by being completely present and not allowing this
to be a fantasy session of any kind. Affirm your desire for Knowledge by
remembering upon the hour to stop for a moment, to be with your environment and
to be with yourself. Affirm your desire for Knowledge by considering today how
important this desire is and how lacking it seems around you. For you will see
that even when presented with simple problems in the world, people will avoid
or deny them. They will go away from them, as if every problem were some kind
of stinging pain for them or reminded them of some inner disability that the
cannot tolerate.
You who are learning to face the world and to face
yourself need today’s affirmation to give you the strength, the courage and the
reassurance that you need.
Practice 18: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Smithsonian's Enid A. Haupt Garden,
Washington, D.C. For stillness, one might seek a relatively quiet public garden
such as this. Children play, but it is not noisy.
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
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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