Greetings All –
The world is awaiting my contribution. Step 321 (MP3) [Open
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TRULY THE WORLD IS AWAITING YOUR CONTRIBUTION, but remember your contribution will express itself in all things you do, great and small. So do not imagine for yourself a role that is grandiose or that will be devastatingly difficult. That is not The Way of Knowledge. Knowledge will express itself through all of your activities, for it is a presence you carry with you. As your mind and your life become free of conflict, this presence will express itself increasingly through you, and you will be a witness of Knowledge at work, both within yourself and within your life. Here you will begin to understand what it means to bring Knowledge into the world.
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| The world is awaiting my contribution. Step 321 |
TRULY THE WORLD IS AWAITING YOUR CONTRIBUTION, but remember your contribution will express itself in all things you do, great and small. So do not imagine for yourself a role that is grandiose or that will be devastatingly difficult. That is not The Way of Knowledge. Knowledge will express itself through all of your activities, for it is a presence you carry with you. As your mind and your life become free of conflict, this presence will express itself increasingly through you, and you will be a witness of Knowledge at work, both within yourself and within your life. Here you will begin to understand what it means to bring Knowledge into the world.
YOUR
IMAGINATION HAS PAINTED GRANDIOSE PICTURES and devastating nightmares for you.
It is not in harmony with life. It exaggerates life in its hope and in its
fear. It exaggerates your sense of yourself, primarily to your own
self-deprecation. When your imagination is redirected by Knowledge, it will
engage itself in an entirely new way. It will serve an entirely new purpose.
Then you will be able to be free, and your imagination will not betray you.
THE
WORLD IS CALLING FOR YOU. You are now preparing. In its great need you
recognize your great contribution. But remember always that your contribution
gives of itself, and your desire to have it give of itself is your desire to
give. Your desire to have your life become a vehicle of expression is your
desire to have your life become unfettered by conflict and ambivalence. Your
desire to give is your desire to become free and whole. This is your desire—to
have your life be a vehicle for Knowledge.
YOUR
TASK,THEN, IS GREAT but not as great as your imagination might indicate, for
your task is to perfect your vehicle so that Knowledge may express itself
freely.You do not have to wonder or imagine how this can be done, for it is
being done today and will be done tomorrow. As you follow the steps within your
current preparation and as you learn to follow the steps beyond this
preparation, you will see you need but follow the steps as they are given to
proceed.
UPON
THE HOUR REMIND YOURSELF of your lesson and do not forget. Look upon the world
and realize that it is calling for you to contribute. In your deeper
meditations, re-enter your sanctuary in stillness and in receptivity. In doing
so, realize that Knowledge needs you to become its vehicle. It needs you to
become its recipient. It needs to fulfill itself through you. Thus, you and
Knowledge are fulfilled together.
UPON
THE HOUR AND IN YOUR DEEPER PRACTICES TODAY, realize the importance of your
role. Realize as well that all true assistance is given to you to prepare and
will abide with you in your contribution as you learn to express Knowledge and
to allow Knowledge to express itself through you.
PRACTICE
321: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Picture: Waiting
- Leuven, Belgium.
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. 1x and 2x links above 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.
