Greetings All –
Today I will learn patience. Step 59 (MP3)
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| Today I will learn patience. Step 59 |
IT IS VERY
DIFFICULT FOR A MIND THAT IS TORMENTED to be patient. It is very difficult for
a mind that is restless to be patient. It is very difficult for a mind that has
sought all of its worth from temporary things to be patient. Only in the
pursuit of something greater is patience necessary because it requires a
greater application. Think of your life in terms of long-term development, not
in terms of immediate sensation and gain. Knowledge is not merely stimulation.
It is the depth of power that is universal and eternal, and its greatness is
given to you to receive and to give.
PRACTICE EACH
HOUR TODAY affirming that you will learn to be patient and that you will become
observant of your life rather than critical of your life. Affirm that you will
become objective about your abilities and your circumstances so that you may
apply a greater certainty to them.
LEARN PATIENCE
TODAY AND PATIENTLY LEARN. In this way, you will move more quickly, more
certainly and more lovingly.
PRACTICE 59:
Hourly practice.
Picture: Waiting
for your ride at the airport is a great way to build the skill of patience.
Here, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington County,
Virginia.
It is very common for
students to use some technology such as an hourly chime, vibration or other
auditory or sensory market as a reminder.
Overall, the learning of
patience is critical to life. It is a focus my mother, age 91, says she still
works on.
Following is a picture of
“Patience.”
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| Patience the rock - Shenandoah National Park. |
For more than thirty years
I've been on a Journey to Patience. The path is here in pictures on Pinterest.
I later understood the process of going in and coming out as a labyrinth walk.
From the Wikipedia labyrinth
page: “One can think of labyrinths as symbolic of pilgrimage; people can
walk the path, ascending toward salvation or enlightenment.” Somewhere in your
environment, you may be able to find or create a labyrinth walk for yourself.
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.
