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Step 32 - The truth is
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| The truth is with me. I can feel it. Step 32 |
THE TRUTH IS WITH YOU. YOU
CAN FEEL IT, and it can shine into your mind and into your emotions if you
allow it to. Today continue your preparation in developing the desire for truth
and the capability to experience truth.
IN YOUR TWO LONGER PRACTICE
PERIODS, each of a 30-minute duration, sit quietly with your eyes closed,
breathing deeply and regularly, attempting to feel the truth beyond the
constant restlessness of your mind. Use your breath to take you deeper, for
your breathing will always take you beyond your thoughts if you adhere yourself
to it conscientiously. Let nothing distract or dissuade you. If something
permeates your mind and you have difficulty releasing it, tell yourself that
you will look at it a little later, but that right now you are taking a small
vacation from your mind. Practice feeling the truth. Do not think the truth.
Practice feeling the truth.
PRACTICE 32: Two 30-minute
practice periods.
Picture:
Truth in a flower? Feel this red hibiscus flower as the photographer did.
Front Royal, Virginia – June 19, 2015
Aug 16, 1999
7:50 p.m. Where am I? For the past two days S2K
was to, on the hour, look at the world w/o judgement in order to see a
different world. I've not been able to do that very well. I recall the ACIM
lessons where one was to see that it is an illusion. I don't know if this is
the same lesson.
When I look off the back porch northeast across
the backyard - I see a hodge-podge of housing. The remnants of apple tree
stumps. Grape vines overrun with honeysuckle and other weeds. I see work that
should be done and the result of other peoples works - homes, fences, a car -
new Malibu and Chevy custom van. The living things are green. People move
through the scene.
8:05 p.m. Looking w/o judgement. No particular
change.
I see pieces of a
town, a settlement. My work - cooperation - is already known. I am learning the
known and teaching the known. I should not be needed.
These practices are simple, but not easy. Following is my
Steps book page for this lesson with green ink for 1999, black ink from /00
meaning 2000 and blue ink undated.
I stuck with it; learned
many useful things that enabled me to get through some tough situations, and
I'm still learning. The Teachers have packed a lot in here.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 31. This is for those who have completed Steps once. Doing Steps
with only the texts, messages and your life experience, including what you may
have studied and practiced is your journey. I’m showing my first year Step comments
after the Step, so as not to influence you in advance. It is a wilderness trek
to be left to your own wits, but then you can also listen more closely for
guides, angels and teachers, always first saying: “I surround and protect
myself with the Love and the Grace of God.” Thankfully, I was taught this
practice in 1989.
P.S. 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.
