Greetings All –
I
will feel Knowledge today. Step 163 (MP3)
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| I will feel Knowledge today. Step 163 |
FEEL
THE ABIDING QUALITY OF KNOWLEDGE, which is always available to you beyond your
thoughts and self-preoccupations. Upon the hour, feel Knowledge today. Repeat
the idea for the day and take a moment to feel its presence. The presence of
Knowledge is something you can take with you everywhere you go, into each
encounter, into each circumstance. It is appropriate everywhere. In this, you
will be able to see each circumstance and event. You will be able to hear. You
will be able to give. You will be able to comprehend. This stability is
something the world greatly needs, and you who are rich with Knowledge have
this to give.
FEEL
KNOWLEDGE THIS DAY IN YOUR DEEPER PRACTICE PERIODS. Give yourself to this, for
this is your gift to God and to the world. Let this day be a day of
strengthening and a day of confirmation. Let not any small failure today
dissuade you from your greater task. Realize that all setbacks can only stop
you in your progress, and you need only step forward to continue. The response
to any failure, then, great or small, is simply the decision to continue. For
you need only follow the steps that are given here to achieve the results of
this preparation for you. How simple is the path to Knowledge. How clear is its
way when you follow its provision step by step.
PRACTICE
163: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
May the learning continue,
Step by Step.
Picture:
UCLA campus, Los Angeles, California.
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.
