Greetings All –
I will not let doubt and confusion slow my
progress. Step 20 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download
folder or play from Drive – Step PDF also.]
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| I will not let doubt and confusion slow my progress. Step 20 |
WHAT
CAN SLOW YOUR PROGRESS but your own indecision, and what can breed indecision
save that which produces confusion of mind? You have a greater goal which is
being illustrated in this program of preparation. Do not let doubt and
confusion be an obstruction to you. To be a true student means that you are
assuming very little and that you are directing yourself in a manner that you
do not prescribe for yourself but which is given to you from a Greater Power.
The Greater Power wishes to raise you to its own level of ability. In this way,
you receive the gift of preparation so that you may give it to others. In this
way, you are given that which you cannot provide for yourself. You realize your
individual power and ability because they must be developed in order for you to
follow a program of this nature. You also realize your inclusion in life as
life strives to serve you in your true development.
THEREFORE,
PRACTICE THE SAME PRACTICE that you attempted in the previous day in your two
practice periods, and do not let doubt or confusion dissuade you. Be a true
student today. Allow yourself to concentrate on your practice. Give yourself to
practice. Be a true student today.
PRACTICE 20: Two 15-minute practice periods.
Picture: River
Lane - Sperryville, Virginia - July 25, 2015
Plan B - If the MP3 doesn’t work, here’s the link to
the folder: New Message - Student Spoken Steps Recordings -
Steps to Knowledge - Working file
If this is your first time seeing one of the “Steps to Knowledge”,
then welcome. There are 365 Steps, daily spiritual practices if one seeks to
complete them in a year, but that is not necessary. They can be used by people
of any religious tradition or no religious tradition. They will help one to
become mindful in the world.
The Step today is from the book: Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing. The practices were
brought to the world through Marshall Vian Summers, The Messenger for The New
Message From God. Important background for the Steps is in: “Greater Community Spirituality” and the “Wisdom Books - I and II”.
Hard copies are available from the New Knowledge Library Store. The
Society for the New Message from God also has a Free Book Project. If you need
the books now, PDF files can be found here: http://goo.gl/RJuuGP
Keeping a journal is recommended. If you have a Steps book,
write your reactions and comments, highlight or underline points that strike
you, and date the note. In this way, your Steps book can be a partial journal.
Using the PDF, you can print out pages as you need them, or use
the software to maintain a digital copy where you can enter notes and highlight
text that stands out.
Other modern methods of keeping a journal include having a
document on your PC or phone to keep notes. You could send yourself an email or
use the voice recorder function. It is important to capture insights and
reactions because it is by this means that you can understand change. Sometimes
it may just be a word or short phrase, an image or a scene.
To end this post I again offer the blessing: "May the
presence of the Teachers be with you." In the invocative language of
Knowledge this blessing is: "Nasi Novare Coram" (pronounced NAH-see
no-VAHR-ay co-RAHM)
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
The short form of Nasi Novare Coram used by students is NNC.
NNC
P.S. 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 linked below 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.
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 anyone 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.
