Step 181 - Today I
receive the love of Knowledge. (MP3)
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| “Today I receive the love of Knowledge.” Step 181 |
KNOWLEDGE POSSESSES THE TRUE SEED OF LOVE, not love
that is a mere sentiment, not love that is a form of intoxication surrounding
an urgent desire born of fear. Knowledge is the seed of true love, not the love
that seeks to conquer, to possess and to dominate, but the love that seeks to
serve, to empower and to free another. Become the recipient of this love today
so that it may flow through you to the world, for without your denial it will
most surely do this.
UPON THE HOUR, REPEAT THIS STATEMENT and feel its
full impact, regardless of the circumstance that you find yourself in. Allow
each circumstance to support your practice, and you will find that your practice
will have an increasingly potent effect on your external life. In your two
deeper practices today, enter into the presence of Knowledge and receive its
love. Affirm your worthiness and your receptivity. Relinquish your presumptions
about yourself and the world, and allow yourself to have an experience that
will demonstrate the truth beyond any assumption. This is your practice today. This
is your gift to yourself, to your world and to your Creator so that you may
receive the gift of love.
PRACTICE 181: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
Note: “Knowledge
is the seed of true love…that seeks to serve, to empower and to free another.”
From the Journal:
8:30
a.m. 1/13/2000> For MIF – this work will be used for the next 100 years.
Valley needs to understand scientifically its biology. Unlike engineering,
which lends itself to tables, usable everywhere, biological relationships have
more variability due to local adaptation, therefore – local research is
required.
The journal did not have an entry for the Step, but
the material I recorded was included here as it is an important environmental
study that I was able to initiate in my work. The research link is to the work
conducted by USGS.
The Step page did have some notes. At the very top
is my comical and ironic phrase: The world is “Yes and Know.”
Blue ink is year two. Inserted in the first line is
“Life
stinks,” a strong complaint and
therefore a strong call for Knowledge. Though not looking ahead a year to that
date, we can assume that wasn’t a good day. Let us continue.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 180. 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.
