Greetings All –
YOU WILL FIND HAPPINESS IN SMALL THINGS because happiness is with you. You will find happiness in small things because you are learning to be still and observant. You will find happiness in small things because your mind is becoming receptive. You will experience happiness in small things because you are being present to your current circumstances. Small things can carry great messages if you are attentive to them. Then small things will not aggravate you.
A STILL MIND IS AN AWARE MIND. A still mind is a mind that is learning to be at peace. Peace is not a passive state. It is a state of the greatest activity, for it engages your life with great purpose and intensity, activating all of your powers and giving them uniform direction. This comes from peace. God is still, but everything from God is generated into constructive and uniform action. This is what gives form and direction to all meaningful relationships. This is why your Teachers are with you, for there is a Plan.
PRACTICE STILLNESS TWICE TODAY IN DEEP MEDITATION. State your lesson’s affirmation upon the hour and consider it briefly. Allow your day to be given to practice, so practice can infuse itself into all of your other activities.
PRACTICE 85: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Take note: "Peace
is not a passive state. It is a state of the greatest activity, for it
engages your life with great purpose and intensity, activating all of
your powers and giving them uniform direction."
Yesterday: Step 84 - Review
October 9, 1999 - The Value Regions thesis - Regional coordination/networking increased the intelligence of all involved. A region is two or more - any two node network is regional We are set up to be negative/defensive in our communication - the ping pong game is played to ace the other, not maintain a long, long volley.
There is a large set of existing networked regions that already add value. This structure needs to be made more visible. It is a discovery channel model.
I will go slow and the design will emerge.
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5:25 p.m. - At Little Bear. I have finished the review of the weeks lessons. Many were very powerful.
10/3 78 I can do nothing alone.
/4 79 I will allow uncertainty to exist today..
/5 80 I can only practice.
/6 81 I will not deceive myself today.
/7 82 I will not judge another today.
/8 83 I value Knowledge (Holy Spirit) beyond all things.
All steps together shine within me. I honor my creator and seek joy.
Amen & Amen
T-om Su-ne
Time to head out. The week ahead, the weeks - there shall be more joy - for I see and feel more and sense/get more of true life.
There was a lot this day. Here I am being myself, being odd, and, with Steps to Knowledge, trying to make sense of the world.
NNC
