Greetings All –
DO NOT BE AFRAID TO FOLLOW, for you are a follower.
Do not be afraid to be a student, for you are a student. Do not be afraid to
learn, for you are a learner. Merely accept what you are and utilize it for
good. Here you end the war against yourself, where you have attempted to be
something that you are not. Learn to accept yourself, and you will realize you
are accepted. Learn to love yourself, and you will realize that you are loved.
Learn to receive yourself, and you will learn that you are received. How can
you love, accept and receive yourself? By being a student of Knowledge, because
here all these accomplishments are natural. You must accomplish them to be with
Knowledge, and Knowledge will accomplish them. Thus, a simple means is given to
you to resolve a seemingly complex dilemma.
DO NOT DOUBT THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE WITHIN YOU and what
it can accomplish, for you cannot comprehend the meaning of Knowledge, the
source of Knowledge or the mechanism of Knowledge. You can only receive its
beneficence. You are only asked to receive this day. You are only asked to be a
recipient of Knowledge.
UPON THE HOUR REMEMBER YOUR IDEA and give it
serious consideration throughout the day. Realize the many opportunities to practice
this day, as your mind now is being drawn away from fantasy and confusion.
Realize how much time and energy is available to you. You will be amazed at how
your life will open and what great opportunities will begin to emerge for you.
IN YOUR DEEPER PRACTICES TODAY, once again enter
stillness. Once again take refuge from the vicissitudes and the confusion of
the world. Once again enter the sanctuary of Knowledge to give yourself. It is
in this giving that you receive. It is in this giving that you will find what you
seek this day.
PRACTICE 314: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Another contemplative Step that lead to a long
journal entry:
May
25, 2000
10:25
p.m. "Let me recognize that what is complex is simple."
This
is the 2nd practice – the 1st I started in the a.m. but couldn't complete. I
thought about this throughout the day.
Several
things came to me. The complex is simple to those that have the Knowledge and
experience to deal with it. For every complex situation or thing there is likely
one soul to whom it's simple. If we can find that person, it will be simple for
us too.
If
those that see their "complex has simple" cooperate – we might be
able to have a safe world. If we knew who the experts were and also trusted them…
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3
a.m. May 26, 2000 – 313 cont.
"Have
confidence that all problems you perceive – great & small, within yourself
and without, – will be resolved through Knowledge…not…in a passive state…require
active engagement…and active development of your abilities for a true
purpose."
This
is a lesson I am to review.
What
is complex to the human mind is simple in the sight of the Creator/or Spirit
family/unseen teachers.
From
the human perspective, with human tools – perception – it is possible to bite
off more than one can chew – thus undertaking the impossible – save the
world/leading to discouragement/failure –
It
is from this viewpoint that it comes through to stay in body/be in the world.
Although
safe at this moment financially – having an OK space – I'm pitifully behind due
to error/ignorance/failure to respond to intuition. (the same error committed
later – May 28)
That
is discouraging – I'm aware of the simple steps I might have taken – but
didn't, and now I'm w/o options I could have had.
I
see my life as fragile – yet a cake walk compared to others. I may be trying
too much, expecting the impossible. If I had more resources, I could help the
GC books promotion with donations.
S2K
asks for faith for the progression of Knowledge. I'm committed to that.
ACIM
asked the same. I did that. It was a partial answer.
Am I
spiritually gullible?
For
me to act consistent with the view "What is complex is simple" I need
to continue to follow my nose.
My
regional intelligence view in suggesting the complex nature of boundaries can
be viewed simply. What makes it difficult is all the baggage/history of events
which must be displaced, ignored, healed in order to be "new."
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Paragraph
1 says the complexity view is "… The result of using your personal beliefs
to organize the universe to my liking" (must be my spin).
So –
what beliefs led to this?
I
used to believe that:
– good work would be rewarded
– that I could seek to be a good person
– that intuition would guide me along my
spiritual development path
– that relationships could be healed [in the
same life time]
– that intuition/an openness would guide me
– that conflict can be overcome by love
– that the physical is temporary
– that I’m a spirit in a body
– that when I feel alone, I'm not
– that my perspective might help others
– that dysfunction explains a lot/and nothing
at the same time
– that someday I'd find a teacher/teaching
that I could commit to [S2K] ?
– that food is a calmative for stress (choc,
coffee, bulk)
– that exercise is boring
– I’ve used my mind to avoid physical
conflict (getting beat up)
– that I should choose life – let go/ignore
thoughts that solve problems with death (ACIM)
– minimizing my ego is for spiritual benefit
– my career/life put me in FR – & that's OK
Some
of these beliefs are related to K – others are not – they'll change
Lots of thought and recording of thought. Cathartic
in the moment. Let us continue.
NNC
P.S. At Step 314, we are less than two months from
the end – Step 365. If you’ve found this and find some appeal in this or other
Steps, you should really go to the beginning blog post. From here you learn about Steps to Knowledge and
can begin it on the day that makes sense and 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 per Step.
Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps
once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference
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.
