Greetings All -
Step 66 - I will stop complaining about the world.
COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WORLD MEANS that it is not meeting your idealism. Complaining about the world means that you do not recognize that you have come here to work. Complaining about the world does not help you understand its predicaments. Complaining about the world means you do not understand the world as it is. Your complaints indicate that some expectation has been disappointed. These disappointments are necessary for you to begin to understand the world as it is and to understand yourself as you truly are.
UPON THE HOUR TODAY GIVE THIS AFFIRMATION to yourself and then practice it. Each hour spend a minute not complaining about the world. Do not let the hours go by unattended, but be present for practice. Recognize the extent to which others are complaining about the world and how little it gives them and how little it gives the world. The world has already been condemned by those who dwell within it. If it is to be loved and cultivated, its predicaments must be recognized and its opportunities must be accepted. Who can complain when an environment is given where Knowledge can be reclaimed and contributed? The world only needs Knowledge and the expressions of Knowledge. How can it be worthy of condemnation?
PRACTICE 66: Hourly practice.
Yesterday: Step 65 - I have come to work in the world.
In this Step, as in others, promises are made as to what the benefits of the practices will be: "This
will affirm your strength, your purpose and your destiny. This will
affirm the reality of your True Home, from which you have brought your
gifts."
From the Journal:
7:40 A.M. Monday, Sept 20 - S2K hourly practice is: "I have come to work in the world." I'd read it as "I have come to the world to work." The difference is subtle, but the latter puts emphasis on work as though it were the only thing. I am one of many who have come to work in the world.
Am I such a fragile soul that it is so difficult to stay in body?
I'm not lost, but seeking my proper affinity. Thus always an outsider who can't get into any particular fold.
Let our work continue.
NNC
