Greetings All –
I will allow my errors to
teach me. Step 73 (MP3)
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| I will allow my errors to teach me. Step 73 |
ALLOWING YOUR ERRORS TO INSTRUCT YOU will give them
value. They would have no value without this and would be a mark against you in
your own estimation. Using errors for instruction, then, is taking advantage of
your own limitations to have them point the way to greatness. God wishes for
you to learn from your errors so that you may learn of the greatness of God.
This is done not to belittle you but to raise you up. There are many errors you
have committed, and there are some errors you will still make. It is in order
to guard against the repetition of damaging error and to learn from error that
we wish to instruct you now.
UPON EACH HOUR OF THIS DAY, repeat to yourself that
you wish to learn from your errors and feel for a moment what this means. Thus,
through many periods of practice today, you will begin to understand the
statement you are making and will perhaps then perceive how it can be brought
about. If you are willing to learn from your errors, you will not be so afraid
to recognize them. Then you will wish to understand them, not to deny them, not
to bear false witness against them, not to call them by other names, but to
admit them for your own benefit. From this recognition, you will be able to
assist others in the reclamation of Knowledge, for they too must learn how to
learn from their errors.
PRACTICE 73: Hourly practice.
Picture: Haight-Ashbury is a
district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and
Ashbury streets. … The neighborhood is known for its history of, and being the
origin of hippie subculture. In taking on the culture of sex, drugs and rock 'n’ roll, some people may have erred.
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.
