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Step 77 - Review (MP3)
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IN YOUR
REVIEW TODAY, once again review the past week of practices and instruction.
Once again examine the qualities within yourself which aid you in your
preparation and the qualities within yourself that make your preparation more
difficult. Observe these things objectively. Learn to strengthen those aspects
of yourself that encourage and strengthen your participation in the reclamation
of Knowledge, and learn to adjust or correct those qualities that interfere.
You must recognize both to have Wisdom. You must learn of truth and you must
learn of error. You must do this to progress, and you must do this to serve
others. Unless you have learned of error and can look at it objectively and
understand how it has arisen and how it can be relieved—until you have learned
these things—you will not know how to serve others, and their errors will anger
you and frustrate you. With Knowledge your expectations will be in harmony with
the nature of another. With Knowledge you will learn how to serve and you will
forget how to condemn.
PRACTICE
77: One long practice period.
It has been a week Time to
review. Review is important.
Yesterday: Step 76
- Today I will not judge another.
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| "Today I will not judge another." Step 76 Photo: desmotivociones.es |
Learning "not to
judge" does take some work, as it is contrary to the nature of human
societies.
From the Journal:
12:32
A.M. Friday, October 1, 1999
Where
am I? I'm in the process of using S2K to enhance my connection and understanding.
It is worth doing. I don't know the outcome. Today at the Planning Academy in
Strasburg I looked at my hand/my arm and thought, "All this humanity
dying, others in the room dying too. The great manifestation for a short time
frame of life." Even as I sit here in the rocker - listening to a new age
Native American music on the WV PBS Nightshades - I am amazed that I sit here
and push the pen. Two splits of Cabernet Sauvignon help the mood. Cindy is in
bed. Where am I? Work is an endless challenge. ...
This
isn't even my real life perhaps? I don't know where S2K takes me ... or even if
that is real, though signs point to yes.
I
will remain in body. The sense I have of the True me - is that, in motion, I go
quite slow - but with high accuracy.
8:37
A.M. ... S2K "Today I will not judge another." That's on the hour.
Thus for the moment, I'll vent on the ... who've made my life hard at work.
These thought are more about my state-of-mind than the Step, but such
things are important to record for review. It enables one to detect movement in
their thinking. Note that at 8:37, before the hourly, I vented anger I would
have to ignore when practicing the Step.
NNC
Journal
2nd Time Step 76. 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.
