Greetings All –
WITHOUT YOUR FEARFUL SPECULATION, without your
anxious reaction to fearful appearances and without your ambitions and denials,
you may see the world unfolding today. Your eyes will see this, your ears will
hear it, your skin will sense it and you will feel it with your entire physical
and mental being. You will know this because your being knows while your mind thinks
and your body acts. Thus it is that the power of Knowledge is the power of
being, of which you are a part.
IT IS WITH THIS POWER that you can observe the
world unfolding, for the world has a being, a mind and a body. Its being knows,
its mind thinks and its body acts. Nature is its body. Your collective thinking
is its mind. Knowledge is its being. Thus, as you begin to realize Knowledge
within your life, you will realize Knowledge within the world. As you see
Knowledge cleansing and purifying your mind, you will see Knowledge cleansing
and purifying all minds in your world. As you see Knowledge guiding you into
effective action, you will see Knowledge in the world guiding others into
effective action. Thus, as you learn to have compassion towards yourself, you
will learn to have compassion towards the world. As you witness your own
unfoldment, you will witness the world’s unfoldment.
TODAY UPON THE HOUR REPEAT THIS IDEA and bear
witness to the unfoldment of the world. In your two longer practice periods
today, with your eyes open, gaze upon the world around you. Spend these times
alone, gazing upon the world around you. Look without judgment. Feel the world
unfolding. You need not try to feel this. You will feel it because it is
natural. Without obstruction or intervention on your part, this experience will
be ever present and available to you. Feel the world unfolding, for it will
confirm all that you are learning now, and all that you are learning now will
serve the world in its unfoldment.
PRACTICE 348: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Yesterday: Step 347 - I allow my life to unfold today.
Unfolding might be an unraveling for many, but
given the near year progression to get here, it is a gentle and encouraging
Step. The final sentence gives such a conclusion: “Here you bear witness to your life, which this day
is emerging and unfolding.”
The journal this day was mostly positive:
7:25
a.m. Wednesday, June 28, 2000 – Step 347 "I allow my life to unfold
today." My inner life is rich. My outer life is rich as well. My place –
confused at present. I have enemies which I cannot fight, but choose to
respect/love.
We
have a local perspective on boundaries, County, city, town – but can see/relate
to regional land forms and water bodies. In my local view shed I see a piece of
the Blue Ridge, the Shenandoah River, the highway – I only see local, but I
know the geographic forms extend – they are regional.
7:45
a.m. My inner and outer lives are one.
Life
is continuous.
What
is falling away besides the Commission? What will take its place for income –
that important pillar? Attempts to leave the Valley are not supported – what
will replace it as my source of income? SU is a prime location – but I have to
bring my own bucks.
→ I could go to Russ
---
→ I could go to
Andy ---
→ I could go to
John ---
→ I could go to
Frank---
[margin
note] citizens – don’t wait for government!
– I
want regional intelligence to be a movement. Business already has it, because
markets are regional/global
→ Give notice –
90 days – October 1, 2000 or 180 days – December 31, 2000 –
→ exploring the
regional context
5:47
p.m. Home for the stillness. How is my life unfolded thus far? Today? Told the
water story to Cecilly K---
Heard
a sad story from a woman in Page Co. two children – health problems – with the
kids. I offered her what help I could. Referred her to Judi B--- on her housing
issues.
Is
hard to let the NSV fall away because they need me so – even though they don't
know it. I can let the Commission fall away – the planning session to get the
computer upgrades was important.
A few insights and the mundane of the job, which is
important in the scheme of things. Questions abound, yet patience is required.
Let us continue.
NNC
P.S. At Step 348, we are 17 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. You can
use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in
order in the archives - one post per Step.
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.
