Greetings All –
ALONE YOU CAN DO NOTHING, but you are not alone. Yes,
you are an individual, but you are greater than an individual. Thus it is that
you cannot be alone, and thus it is that your individuality has great promise
and purpose in the world. Thus it is that you who are part of the greatness
that is greater than your individuality and you who are part of your
individuality as well become whole and unified. In this, everything that you
have constructed for yourself is turned for good. All of your creations are given
purpose, meaning, direction and inclusion in life. Thus, your life is redeemed
and reclaimed, and you become part of life and a vehicle for its unique
expression. This is the true meaning of today’s lesson.
ONLY IN THE SHADOWS AND THE DARKNESS OF IMAGINATION
can you hide from the light of truth. You must believe that you are alone to think
that your imaginings are real. To learn that you are not alone at first may
seem fearful because you are afraid that your imaginings and guilt would be
revealed. Yet, as you consider this honestly and without condemnation, you
realize that it means that you have been reclaimed, rejuvenated and are now
being prepared to receive the power that abides with you, the power that is
your Source and True Self.
REPEAT TODAY’S IDEA UPON THE HOUR and realize that
it is an affirmation of your strength and inclusion in life. In your deeper meditations
allow yourself to re-enter the stillness of your sanctuary of Knowledge where
it will become evident that you are not alone. Here you are in true marriage
with life and in true union with those who have come to serve you and guide you
and with those who practice with you now. In your inclusion is your happiness.
In your isolation is your misery. Your misery has no foundation, for you are
not alone and your success is guaranteed, for alone you can do nothing.
PRACTICE 337: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Yesterday: Step 336 - Review
Two weeks ago, time was available, so a long review
with many notes was done. This day in 2000, in spite of the powerful Steps the
prior two weeks, there is little time for review. The journal records: “The flame of
Knowledge was doused by the Commission audit preparation.” This is a Saturday, but work must be done - no
overtime.
It will happen that the Steps cannot be done as the
directions would have it. That is life on earth. What did was the best I could,
but kept on with the Steps. That has been faced in the past; but it has not
stopped progress.
Here’s all that was in the Journal:
June
17, 2000 a.m. Saturday – Hot – Ben O--- – An interesting guy – understands
cities & towns.
–
Home Base
–
Home Planet
–
Home Region
→ Regions Work – Proposal – for
SU –
Foundation Funding –
SU – A regional university which supports
regional collaboration within its service area for the educational growth of
regional community empowerment –
→ Location – SU – Funders – Ford, McArthur, –
Winchester – and historic crossroads – NSV
– a
building block –
–
use technology to overcome distance
– a
greater community –
>
Legislative boundaries will change –
>
Population base
>
Academic home –
>
Local governments are designed to be local –
>
the more cooperative among you shall succeed –
>
LFPD OK for local government – but a greater venue is required to educate –
Locus
for distribution of goods & services – make it a center point for
knowledge/information
→ Home schooling is the problem
→ dysfunction increases from generation to generation
→ Use SU to help make NSV/information rich -
12:47
p.m. I have been here [at work] two hours and made virtually no progress. What is
the problem?
10:32
p.m. Starting the long practice 336 late and not in a good mood. The flame of
Knowledge was doused by the Commission audit preparation – From 11 a.m. to 9:15
p.m. With only a short break. It is hard to reconcile things over a year old.
My errors these past few years see nearly continuous.
The Steps are working toward a strong close. The is
the holiday season, the Holy Days, which increases competition for one’s time. A
great gift is in store. Let us continue.
NNC
P.S. At Step 337, we are 28 Steps from the end –
Step 365. This is not the place to begin this Practice. If you’ve some interest
due to this or other Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge
and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. January
1 is a good day to do so. Daily blog entries and Tweets begin again with Step 1
on January 1, 2015. I will be blogging year two, and referencing this
collection of year 1 – day by day. Regardless, any day you choose to begin, you
can use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps.
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 here 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. There are options as well
through the Free School of the New Message.
