Step 176 - I will follow
Knowledge today. (MP3)
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| “I will follow Knowledge today.” Step 176 |
UPON EACH HOUR OF THIS DAY experience yourself
following Knowledge. Make small decisions about small things as it is necessary,
but make no great decisions without Knowledge. You have a personal mind to make
small, insignificant decisions. But greater decisions should be made with
Knowledge.
FOLLOW KNOWLEDGE TODAY UPON THE HOUR. Allow its
peace and its certainty to abide with you. Allow its overall direction to be discerned
by you. Allow its potency to affect you. Allow it to give itself to you as you
are now learning to give yourself to it.
IN YOUR TWO LONGER MEDITATION PRACTICES TODAY,
using the word RAHN, enter deeply into Knowledge. Enter deeply into the presence
of life. Enter deeply into this experience. Continue to direct your mind
towards this accomplishment. Continue to set aside anything that affects you or
holds you back. In this way, you train the mind and prepare it as well for that
which is most natural to it to occur.
FOLLOW KNOWLEDGE THIS DAY. If Knowledge indicates
something and you are very certain about this, follow it and be observant. See what
happens and try to learn to distinguish Knowledge from your impulses, your
wishes, your fears and your avoidances. This must be learned through
experience. In this way, Knowledge and everything that pretends to be Knowledge
are drawn apart in contrast. This will provide for you greater certainty and
greater self-confidence, which you will need in the times to come.
PRACTICE 176: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Yesterday: Step
175 - Review
No journal entry for Saturday, January 8, 2000. On
the Steps page I wrote:
Little Bear
– 5:40 p.m.
Sun down –
using flashlight.
Deer are about
in the woods -
My being here at
Patience NC: truth
is a continuing necessity
Amen & Amen
T-om Su-ne
Necessity was the theme of this week. It remains a
powerful week of Steps. If you’ve gotten something out of it, be assured, more
lies ahead and for each round of deepening stillness.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 175. 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
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.
