Greetings All –
Step 272 - My Teachers
will guide me as I proceed. (MP3)
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| My Teachers will guide me as I proceed. Step 272 |
YOU WILL REQUIRE TEACHERS TO GUIDE YOU as you
proceed on the path to Knowledge, for you will be venturing far beyond your own
concepts and assumptions. You will be engaged in a life that you have not yet
comprehended. You will be accessing power and resources that you have not yet
fully recognized. You will be venturing deeper into life, beyond human assumptions,
beyond human beliefs and beyond human conventions. This will require very
strong guidance for you, both from Knowledge and from your primary
relationships. Your Inner Teachers represent your most primary relationships,
for these relationships are completely based upon Knowledge, and they are given
to you to cultivate Knowledge safely and completely.
THEREFORE, ACCEPT YOUR LIMITATIONS AS A STUDENT of Knowledge
so that you may proceed with the assistance that will be required. Be grateful
that such great assistance can be given to you and that it can permeate any
circumstance because it is invisible to your eyes. Be grateful that you can
experience it in any circumstance and that you can receive the counsel of your
Teachers at those junctures in life where it is called for.
AFFIRM THE PRESENCE OF YOUR TEACHERS TODAY so that
you may have great courage and enthusiasm in your support of the emergence of
Knowledge. Upon the hour remind yourself that your Teachers are with you. In
your two deeper practice periods, enter into stillness and silence with them so
that they may render their presence and their counsel to you if needed. Accept
your studenthood so that you may learn to give to the world.
PRACTICE 272: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Here we are told: “ACCEPT
RESPONSIBILITY, which is your ability to respond.” Being a first responder is a term that has
become well known in the States since 9-11.
Students of Steps to Knowledge have come to be
equated with “first responders,” given the stamina needed for this work. Having
been exposed to this message, there is this need to: “ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY TODAY. Accept this, for it
represents your truest and greatest need. Responsibility will enable you to
love and extend yourself into the world.”
On top of the page I note: “I have been willing
to take responsibility, but have not wanted power.” In response to: “surround yourself with individuals who can support the emergence of
Knowledge within you” I ask: “Who might these
people be?” When we first respond, is there anyone visible
nearby? Do we have peers also responding? Though we experience our Teachers and
Knowledge to some degree, in earth terms, the neighborhood is lonely – no
others present.
The journal this day had little in terms of
entries:
7
a.m. Thursday, April 13, 2000
We need
technology to deal with distance – nearly everything is distant – beyond the
human scale – the built environment.
Last
night Cindy said she's beginning to understand what I meant saying, "Sarah
was special." She's understanding Sarah’s limitations and is therefore
becoming more understanding. All these years Cindy wasn't understanding anything
of what I was saying.
Relationships
are getting more honest – better – which is Knowledge in my life.
I
accept responsibility for my work in the world and I am open to direction by
Knowledge to where I need to be.
Let us continue. Many Steps to complete to get
through to Step 365.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 271. 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
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.
