Greetings All -
TRUE INSTRUCTION IS AVAILABLE. It has been waiting for you to reach the point of maturity where you realize its necessity in your life.This engenders true motivation for learning. It is born of recognizing your limitations in light of that which is your true need. You must love yourself to become a student of Knowledge and continually love yourself to proceed.There is no other obstacle to learning but this. Without love there is fear, for nothing else can replace love. But love has not been replaced, and true assistance is available to you.
IN YOUR TWO MEDITATION PRACTICES TODAY, attempt to feel the presence of that true assistance. In stillness and in silence, feel this within your life and around you.These meditation practices will begin to open a greater sensitivity within you, a whole new sense. You will begin to discern things that are present, even though you cannot see them. You will be able to respond to ideas and information, even though you cannot hear the source of the message yet. This is the actual process in creative thinking, for people receive ideas; they do not create them. You are part of a greater life. Your personal life is the vehicle for its expression. Your individuality, then, becomes more highly cultivated and more joyful, a prison no longer for you, but the form of your joyful expression.
TRUE ASSISTANCE IS AVAILABLE TO YOU. Practice this day feeling its abiding presence in your life.
PRACTICE 48: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Yesterday: Step 47 - Why do I need Teachers?
This step does make a good case for teachers: "You cannot teach yourself what you do not know, ...."
From the Journal:
9:40 A.M. Sept 2, 1999 - Thursday - S2K "True instruction is available to me." In the first 30 minute meditation - of which 9 minutes remain, I've tried to remember and honor the many teachers I've had in this 52 years of life in/on/with earth. People, situations, schools, books, guidance, intuition, meditation, dreams - all sought because - "Here I am, send me." that response got me here. I want to integrate. I trust and seek verification. That S2K/GCW says its teaching relationships all the way up and down - makes it clear. As a soul I'm not among the first to be conscious - nor is my family of spiritual gypsies. In teaching, my only resistance was to $ cost of music lessons - but I should have done that when I could. That's a regret - but from a greater view - who knows.
With S2K I am testing the truth of this teaching with my heart. There are many proclaimed teachers. ACIM says we teach constantly.
As a society, our teachings work at cross purposes. A Tower of Babel of conflict. Only heart can sort it out for the soul.
This notion was not a problem for me. For others, that may not be the case.
NNC
