Greetings All –
Today I will learn to be happy. Step 107 (MP3)
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| Today I will learn to be happy. Step 107 |
LEARNING
TO BE HAPPY IS SIMPLY LEARNING TO BE NATURAL. Learning to be happy is learning
to accept Knowledge today. Knowledge is happy today. If you are not happy, you
are not with Knowledge. Happiness does not always mean having a smile on your
face. It is not a behavior. Genuine happiness is a sense of self, a sense of
wholeness and satisfaction. If a loss has occurred in your life, a loss of a
loved one, you may still be happy, though you may shed tears. It is all right
to shed tears, for this does not need to betray a greater happiness within you,
for these also may be tears of happiness. Happiness is not a form of behavior.
Let us remind you of this. It is a sense of inner satisfaction. Knowledge will
give this to you because it will simplify your life and allow your mind to
concentrate on that which it is given to do in reality. This will empower you,
simplify you and provide a greater harmony than you could have known before.
THEREFORE,
IN YOUR TWO PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY, allow your mind to enter stillness once
again. This is a time of quietude. This is not a practice of mental
investigation, but a practice of mental stillness.
PRACTICE
107: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Picture:
Rainbow in the Rockies.
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.
