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I will go where I am needed today. Step 194 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from
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| I will go where I am needed today. Step 194 |
ALLOW
YOURSELF TO GO WHERE YOU ARE NEEDED, where you need to go. This necessity of
action will give value and meaning to your activities and will affirm your
worth in all of your engagements this day. Go where you are needed, where you
need to go. Discern the actual motivation for this and distinguish it from any
sense of guilt or obligation to others. Do not place artificial demands upon
yourself. Do not allow others to place artificial demands upon you beyond your
simple duties in this day. Go where you are truly needed.
REMIND
YOURSELF OF THIS UPON THE HOUR, for its meaning must be penetrated to be
experienced. If you are accustomed to guilt and obligation, today’s idea will
seem to compound your difficulty. Yet, today’s idea is really an affirmation of
Knowledge within you, providing an opportunity for Knowledge to guide you and
to demonstrate its value to you. It has nothing to do with dependence, for you
must be independent of false things to follow that which is true. This is the
value of all independence.
IN
YOUR LONGER PRACTICE PERIODS, go deeply into Knowledge. And when you are in the
world, keep this idea alive. Allow yourself to feel a deeper presence within
you as you are out in the world of mundane things, as you are out in the world
of small considerations. Greatness is here to serve the small. Remember.
PRACTICE
194: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Note:
“Go where you are needed, where you need to go. Discern the actual motivation
for this and distinguish it from any sense of guilt or obligation to others.”
Picture: Luggage
pick-up at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. Going where you
need to go may involve travel, which can be challenging.
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.
