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I will not be in a hurry today. Step 109 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive –
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| I will not be in a hurry today. Step 109 |
TODAY
TAKE EACH STEP GRACEFULLY. Do not be in a hurry. You need not be in a hurry
because you are with Knowledge. You may keep your appointments in the world and
keep them on schedule, but within yourself do not be in a hurry. You may seek
Knowledge, fulfillment and contribution, but do not be in a hurry. When you are
in a hurry, you are neglecting your current step for steps you find more
preferable, and how can steps be more preferable except when you are ignoring
the step in front of you? You need only take the step in front of you, and the
next step will arise naturally. Do not be in a hurry. You cannot go faster than
you can go. Do not miss all that we are giving you to practice, which will
require that you not be in a hurry.
THROUGHOUT
THE DAY TODAY REMIND YOURSELF upon the hour not to be in a hurry. Say to
yourself, “I will not be in a hurry today,” and think a moment upon this. You
may meet your worldly responsibilities without being in a hurry. You may meet
your greater goals without being in a hurry. Take comfort in the fact that you
are a beginning student, for beginning students do not know where they are
going because they are in a position to receive, not to govern. This is a great
blessing for you now and will give you the power in time to govern your mind
and your affairs with Knowledge. You will be a kind ruler who will not condemn
error and will not punish sinners, as you now imagine God to do.
KNOWLEDGE
IS NOT IN A HURRY. Why should you be? Knowledge may move you quickly or slowly.
You may then move quickly or slowly, but within yourself you are not in a
hurry. This is part of the mystery of life which you can now learn to discover.
PRACTICE
109: Hourly practice.
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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.
