Greetings All –
Let me recognize my fears so that I may see the
truth beyond them. Step 51 (MP3)
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| Let me recognize my fears so that I may see the truth beyond them. Step 51 |
YOUR OBSTACLES MUST BE RECOGNIZED in order for you
to see beyond them. If they are ignored or denied, if they are protected or
called by other names, you will not realize the nature of your restraint. You will
not understand that which oppresses you. Your life is not born of fear. Your
Source is not born of fear. To be able to recognize your fear means that you
must realize that you are part of something greater. Realizing this you can
learn to become objective about your life and to understand your present
circumstances without self-condemnation, for it is within these circumstances
that you must cultivate yourself. You must start from where you are. To do this
you must take inventory of your strengths and weaknesses.
IN YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, evaluate the
existence of your fears and remind yourself that your reality is beyond them,
but that you must recognize them to understand their damaging presence in your
life. Close your eyes and repeat the idea for today; then consider each fear
that arises in your mind. Remind yourself that the truth is beyond that
specific fear. Allow all fears to arise and be evaluated in this way.
TO BE WITHOUT FEAR, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND FEAR—its
mechanism, its influence on people and its result in the world. You must
recognize this without deception and without preference. You are a great being
working in a limited context, in a limited environment. Understand the
limitations of your environment and understand the limitations of your vehicle,
and you will no longer hate yourself for being limited.
PRACTICE 51: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Picture: Pécs, Hungary - Old
wall supported by beams, once for defense against fearful attack.
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link to
the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge - Working file
If this is your first time seeing one of the “Steps to Knowledge”,
then welcome. There are 365 Steps, daily spiritual practices if one seeks to
complete them in a year, but that is not necessary. They can be used by people
of any religious tradition or no religious tradition. They will help one to
become mindful in the world.
The Step today is from the book: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing. The practices were
brought to the world through Marshall Vian Summers, The Messenger for The New
Message From God. Important background for the Steps is in: “Greater Community Spirituality” and the “Wisdom Books - I and II”.
Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store. The
Society for the New Message from God also has a Free Book Project. If you need
the books now, PDF files can be found here: http://goo.gl/RJuuGP
Keeping a journal is recommended. If you have a Steps book,
write your reactions and comments, highlight or underline points that strike
you, and date the note. In this way, your Steps book can be a partial journal.
Using the PDF, you can print out pages as you need them, or use
the software to maintain a digital copy where you can enter notes and highlight
text that stands out.
Other modern methods of keeping a journal include having a
document on your PC or phone to keep notes. You could send yourself an email or
use the voice recorder function. It is important to capture insights and
reactions because it is by this means that you can understand change. Sometimes
it may just be a word or short phrase, an image or a scene.
To end this post I again offer the blessing: "May the
presence of the Teachers be with you." In the invocative language of
Knowledge this blessing is: "Nasi Novare Coram" (pronounced NAH-see
no-VAHR-ay co-RAHM)
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
NNC
P.S. 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 linked below 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.
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 anyone 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.
