If I understand my relationships, I will understand
my priorities. CT Step 44 (MP3)
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| If I understand my relationships, I will understand my priorities. CT Step 44 |
Again we emphasize this matter of relationships and
priorities, inner choosing, inner freedom, and the emergence of a greater
purpose in your life. Certainly, the emergence of your greater purpose will
change your former obligations and responsibilities. Surely it will create a
fundamental shift here. Your position with everyone will change. With some
people, that change will seem minor. With others, it will be quite significant.
Understanding, then, your relationships as a
reflection of your values and how you view yourself becomes an important tool
in understanding your own development at this time. If you feel overridden by
the desires and the will of others, if you feel that you must carry forth
social commitments regardless of your own sense of restraint or anxiety,
clearly there is a problem here at hand. Clearly, your own authority is not
being exercised and your freedom is not being used. Knowledge knows where you
belong. Knowledge knows whom you must give yourself to. Knowledge understands
your real commitments in life and where they must be placed. Any commitments
outside of this are essentially weak and unstable and are subject to question.
You must question them.
Beyond your practice in stillness and your hourly
remembrances of awareness and discernment, again consider your obligations to
others. Ask yourself, "Is this relationship appropriate for me?" And
if you feel that it is, ask yourself, "To what degree must I commit myself
here?" Be careful not to answer your own questions, however, for the real
answer is waiting for you.
Practice 44: One
30-minute stillness practice.
Contemplation practice.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Wedding parade forming – The French Quarter,
New Orleans, Louisiana. The following is how it looked underway.
Many relationships in process; may
they have been understood then or in process now.
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
Chapter 3: The Limits of Space Travel
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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