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My
individuality is to express life itself. Step 12 (MP3)
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| My individuality is to express life itself. Step 12 |
HERE
YOUR UNIQUENESS IS A GREAT ASSET and a source of joy, not a source of painful
alienation and not a source of painful judgment against yourself or others.
This distinction does not elevate you above or place you below anyone else. It
merely pinpoints the real purpose behind your individuality and its great
promise for the future. You are here to express something. That is the real
meaning given to your individuality because you do not want to be separate
anymore.
ON
TWO OCCASIONS TODAY, practice two periods of silence exercising the practice
that we have illustrated thus far.
PRACTICE
12: Two 15-minute practice periods.
Picture: Dickey
Ridge Trail, Shenandoah National Park – in the fall, leaves on the ground. November
2, 2015
From the Journal: Step 11 - I am not apart from life.
6:30 A.M. Wednesday, July 7, 1999 - Where am I? Stranger in a strange land. GCW says we're passing through. Figure out the real work for self/Spiritual family - Do that.
10:17 A.M. Staying in body is such a challenge. Make the intuitive list. Follow the list intuitively.
"Stranger in a strange land" refers to the 1961 novel by Richard Heinlein. If you are not familiar with it, check the link
GCW is for Greater Community Wisdom. You may have read these books before you started Steps with them being the impetus to do so. You can read them now – link for Volumes I and II.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 11. This is for those who have completed
Steps once. Doing Steps with only the texts, messages and your life experience,
including what you may have studied and practiced is your journey. I’m showing
my first year Step comments after the Step, so as not to influence you in
advance. It is a wilderness trek to be left to your own wits, but then you can
also listen more closely for guides, angels and teachers, always first saying:
“I surround and protect myself with the Love and the Grace of God.” Thankfully,
I was taught this practice in 1989.
P.S. If you’ve some interest due to this or other
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. You can
use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in
order in the archives - one post 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.
