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Step 236 - With Knowledge I will know what to do. (MP3)
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| With Knowledge I will know what to do. Step 236 |
WITH KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO, and your certainty
will be so strong that it will be difficult for you to doubt it or to argue
against it. Here you must be prepared to act and act boldly. If your
predominant concern is protecting your ideas and your physical body, then you
will be afraid of Knowledge, fearing that it will lead you to do something that
will be dangerous or harmful for you. Knowledge can only be demonstrated. Its
beneficence must be experienced. It can only be experienced by accepting its
presence and carrying out its direction.
WITH KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO, and your certainty
will far exceed all of the pretenses you have made about certainty thus far.
Self-doubt may continue in the face of Knowledge, but Knowledge is so much
greater because your whole being will be engaged in the activity. Only the
littleness of your self-doubt, born of your own false beliefs, can argue
against it. Yet, its arguments are pathetic and pitiful and lack depth and
conviction.
KNOWLEDGE WILL MOVE WITHIN YOU AT CERTAIN TIMES,
for in stillness it observes all things until it is ready to act, and when it
acts, it acts! Thus it is that you will learn with Knowledge to be at peace in the
world, and yet when you act, you will act with true efficacy and with great
result. In this way, you may be a person of action and contemplation all at
once, for your contemplation will be deep and meaningful, and your action will
be deep and meaningful as well.
WITH KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO. Do not
think that you know what to do unless you are with Knowledge and Knowledge is
indicating for you to do something with great power. Do not make small attempts
at resolving your problems, for without Knowledge your attempts will be
meaningless and will compound your frustration.
UPON THE HOUR REPEAT TODAY’S IDEA and consider it.
In the depth of your longer practices, utilize the skills that you have
cultivated thus far to engage yourself with stillness. If Knowledge is still,
you may be still as well. Thus, when Knowledge stimulates action, you will be able
to act, and in so doing, the resolution that you bring will be greater than
anything you could conceive of.
PRACTICE 236: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
This was a busy day, nothing on the Steps page and
little in the journal and, but the evidence is recorded.
From the Journal:
8:20
a.m. Tuesday, March 7, 2000. --- Sarah is here – she’s a priority. Work is
getting more compelling.
As I
build my practice, error will come to be corrected. Going with the flow
requires recognition of: (1) oneself in the flow and (2) the context of the
flow and (3) the greater contexts of the flow.
Being
only a piece of the puzzle, it is hard to solve the puzzle.
8:35
p.m.
9:17
p.m. I had come to the office with the intention of doing my second practice.
Too much work to take that time here. I'll do it at home.
The
practice is: "The power of Knowledge is becoming evident to me." This
morning I had the sense of a great under-laying Knowledge system for earth upon
which human/biological life floats – like bits of flotsam and jetsam – froth on
the thinly crusted earth – the space from which the mudheads [ancestors] came.
A lot going on way back in 2000, just like today.
Let us continue.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 235. 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.
