Greetings All –
Give
yourself to this Review so that you may understand how you learn. Step 119 (MP3)
[Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive –
Step PDF also.]
IN
THIS SPECIAL REVIEW, review the past two weeks of practice, reviewing each
instruction and recalling each day of practice. Try to remember how seriously
you thought about each day’s practice and how well you utilized that practice.
Do not think you can complain rightfully about this preparation unless you are
utilizing it to its fullest extent. Your role here is only to follow the steps
as they are given and not to alter them according to your preferences. In this
way, you place yourself in a position to receive, which is the position you now
need to acquire for yourself.
IN
YOUR TWO LONG PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, each one given to one week of practice,
review the past two weeks. Try to be very kind with yourself, but recognize if
you are falling short of the requirements and do not deceive yourself in this
regard. Rededicate yourself to deepening your practice and your resolve,
reminding yourself of the simplicity of your life and the true value that is
being given to you. In this way, you will learn a new way of living. You will
learn how to receive and how to give, and your life will be free of the
darkness of complexity. For simplicity must always be of the light; it must
always be of the good.
THEREFORE,
GIVE YOURSELF TO THIS REVIEW so that you may understand how you learn. These
Reviews will demonstrate to you your own learning faculties and your own
learning predispositions. They will teach you the necessary things that you will
need to know in the future when you will be able to help others learn as well.
PRACTICE
119: Two long practice periods
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.
