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Step 360 - I must learn
how to reveal greatness in the world. (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to
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| I must learn how to reveal greatness in the world. Step 360 |
WITH SIMPLICITY, HUMILITY and without false
assumptions, remembering that you are a beginning student of Knowledge, you
will be able to learn how to reveal greatness in the world. This is quite
essential because the world is ambivalent towards greatness, towards Knowledge
and towards love. If you present the world’s desire to it when the world is in
an ambivalent state, it will not know how to react. Therefore, its reaction
will either demonstrate that it is for or against your contribution. Any
individual, any community or any world that is beset with ambivalence will
react in more than one way because it is ambivalent. For this reason you must learn
to approach ambivalence with Wisdom, for those who are ambivalent must learn
how to receive their certainty, as you are now learning to do.
RECOGNIZE THUS FAR HOW AMBIVALENT YOU HAVE BEEN
regarding your life and regarding this preparation. Realize that for this
reason, this preparation has been given to you in very incremental steps, one step
at a time, day after day. One step at a time, you learn to develop and to
accept your desire and capacity for Knowledge and you learn to express
Knowledge as well. Being a student means you are here to learn, and as you
learn you will demonstrate, teach and produce the great results that Knowledge
wishes to produce. Yet, Knowledge cannot exceed your limitations because
Knowledge cares for you and protects you as its vehicle. Because you are a part
of Knowledge, you will wish to care for your vehicle as well. That is why you
must take the utmost care of your mind and body as you proceed.
TODAY IN YOUR DEEPER PRACTICE PERIODS, allow
yourself to be instructed in how to reveal greatness in the world. Realize that
the world is ambivalent and accept this, for this is the current state of the world.
Realize that you must give with Wisdom and discernment. And realize that you
must let Knowledge give of itself and not try to give from your own ambition or
need to avoid a sense of inadequacy. Allow your giving to be true and your
giving will be true. Your giving, then, will give of itself in a way that is
appropriate, that will preserve you and that will honor those who receive your
gift. This will bring them out of their ambivalence, as you are now being led
into the light yourself.
PRACTICE 360: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Picture: DFW – Dallas-Fort Worth airport terminal.
Yesterday: Step
359 - I am present to serve the world.
This Step begins: “BE
PRESENT TO SERVE THE WORLD, and the presence that serves the world will speak
through you,” and goes on to explain
what that means, ending with: “This is your
duty here and your great love.”
The hourly practice, if displayed as a list, can
help understand what we must do to prepare:
UPON THE HOUR REMIND YOURSELF that:
(1) you wish to be
present to serve the world…
(2) you wish to be
present to have the world serve you…
(3) you must learn
how to receive and how to give, and
(4) that is why you
are a beginning student of Knowledge.
In the margin I attempted to summarize this part:
“The
world must serve me in order that I’m able to serve the world.”
The journal was lightly used this day:
6:32
a.m. July 10, 2000 –
Being
local is a regional strategy
Being
regional is a global strategy
–
the "local" & the region must work together.
9:35
p.m. An interesting day at the office – Just me –
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Got
home by 7 p.m. – Ate tortilla, turkey, spinach, cheese – my last tortilla – as
I go back to Type O blood diet for a while. ---
>
Now –@ 9:50 p.m. I'm ready for service practice #2 "I am present to serve
the world."
10:55
p.m. In bed reading LTWK [Living The Way of Knowledge]– starting again
from the beginning to learn/work the four pillars.
Putting
the lesson to heart, I turn again to building my pillars. Years of building lie
ahead. Just being a beginning student covers a great amount of territory, with
new information being added. Let us continue.
NNC
Journal second time x2
Step 359. 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.
