Greetings All –
WITH SIMPLICITY, HUMILITY and without false
assumptions, remembering that you are a beginning student of Knowledge, you
will be able to learn how to reveal greatness in the world. This is quite
essential because the world is ambivalent towards greatness, towards Knowledge
and towards love. If you present the world’s desire to it when the world is in
an ambivalent state, it will not know how to react. Therefore, its reaction
will either demonstrate that it is for or against your contribution. Any
individual, any community or any world that is beset with ambivalence will
react in more than one way because it is ambivalent. For this reason you must
learn to approach ambivalence with Wisdom, for those who are ambivalent must learn
how to receive their certainty, as you are now learning to do.
RECOGNIZE THUS FAR HOW AMBIVALENT YOU HAVE BEEN regarding
your life and regarding this preparation. Realize that for this reason, this
preparation has been given to you in very incremental steps, one step at a
time, day after day. One step at a time, you learn to develop and to accept
your desire and capacity for Knowledge and you learn to express Knowledge as
well. Being a student means you are here to learn, and as you learn you will
demonstrate, teach and produce the great results that Knowledge wishes to
produce. Yet, Knowledge cannot exceed your limitations because Knowledge cares
for you and protects you as its vehicle. Because you are a part of Knowledge,
you will wish to care for your vehicle as well. That is why you must take the
utmost care of your mind and body as you proceed.
TODAY IN YOUR DEEPER PRACTICE PERIODS, allow
yourself to be instructed in how to reveal greatness in the world. Realize that
the world is ambivalent and accept this, for this is the current state of the world.
Realize that you must give with Wisdom and discernment. And realize that you
must let Knowledge give of itself and not try to give from your own ambition or
need to avoid a sense of inadequacy. Allow your giving to be true and your
giving will be true. Your giving, then, will give of itself in a way that is
appropriate, that will preserve you and that will honor those who receive your
gift. This will bring them out of their ambivalence, as you are now being led
into the light yourself.
PRACTICE 360: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Yesterday: Step
359 - I am present to serve the world.
This Step begins: “BE
PRESENT TO SERVE THE WORLD, and the presence that serves the world will speak
through you,” and goes on to explain
what that means, ending with: “This is your
duty here and your great love.”
The hourly practice, if displayed as a list, can help
understand what we must do to prepare:
UPON THE HOUR REMIND YOURSELF that
(1) you wish to be
present to serve the world…
(2) you wish to be
present to have the world serve you…
(3) you must learn
how to receive and how to give, and
(4) that is why you
are a beginning student of Knowledge.
In the margin I attempted to summarize this part:
“The
world must serve me in order that I’m able to serve the world.”
The journal was lightly used this day:
6:32
a.m. July 10, 2000 –
Being
local is a regional strategy
Being
regional is a global strategy
–
the "local" & the region must work together.
9:35
p.m. An interesting day at the office – Just me –
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Got
home by 7 p.m. – Ate tortilla, turkey, spinach, cheese – my last tortilla – as
I go back to Type O blood diet for a while. ---
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Now –@ 9:50 p.m. I'm ready for service practice #2 "I am present to serve
the world."
10:55
p.m. In bed reading LTWK [Living The Way of Knowledge]– starting again from the
beginning to learn/work the four pillars.
Putting
the lesson to heart, I turn again to building my pillars. Years of building lie
ahead. Just being a beginning student covers a great amount of territory, with
new information being added. Let us continue.
NNC
P.S. At Step 360, we are just five 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, 2015 might be a time to do so. 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.
