There are greater relationships awaiting me. I must prepare. CT Step 45 (MP3)
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| There are greater relationships awaiting me. I must prepare. CT Step 45 |
There are greater relationships awaiting you. And
you must prepare. Part of the preparation is freeing yourself from those
engagements that may be inappropriate for you now, even if they were
appropriate for you at an earlier time. How can you find these great
relationships if you are not free to participate? You will be ambivalent
regarding them if you think that their arrival in your life will upset your
other commitments to people. Even the arrival of the Greater Community Teaching
will arouse considerable anxiety if you think it will upset or disrupt the
delicate balance that you have in your life at this moment. The Creator’s first
purpose is to unburden you. This requires change and readjustment. If this
change is not welcome, if the need for it is not understood and supported, then
the answer to your great need must wait and your prayers must be left
unanswered until a later time.
There are greater relationships awaiting you. You
must be available to them. Do not fill up your emptiness or your loneliness
with people. Do not become socially engaged unless it serves a greater and
immediate purpose. Let Knowledge be your guide. Follow your natural
inclinations. Resist your social conditioning if it obstructs this. This is
choosing within yourself. It is a shift in your internal allegiance. It is
saying "no" to your own bondage and "yes" to your freedom.
Knowledge will commit you totally to the right people, but it will remain
silent with everyone else.
Think of this throughout the day, and when you
practice stillness, be close to Knowledge. Dedicate yourself at the beginning
of this practice. And upon the hour, remember to look and to listen to see
where you are, how you feel and what is going on around you.
Practice 45: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
This futuristic building has provided many pictures. An ideal setting for these
“greater relationships”. The reality is likely to be mundane, but as of now, we
don’t really know.
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.
Thank you
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