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I will not define my destiny today. Step 135 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive –
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| I will not define my destiny today. Step 135 |
LIKE
YOUR PURPOSE, YOUR DESTINY remains beyond your definition. You need only take a
step in its direction to feel the growing presence of Knowledge in your life.
The closer you are to Knowledge, the more you will experience it. The more that
you experience it, the closer you will want to become because this is a natural
attraction. This is true love, the attraction of like to like. This is what
gives the universe all of its meaning. This is what joins life together
completely. Be free this day of definitions, and allow your mind to take its
natural formation. Allow your heart to follow its natural course. Allow
Knowledge to express itself through your mind, whose outward structure is now
becoming open and free.
REMIND
YOURSELF OF YOUR PRACTICE UPON THE HOUR. In your two deep meditations today,
continue with your RAHN practice, speaking the word RAHN on each exhale. Allow
yourself to feel the presence of your own life, the presence of your Teachers
and the depth of your own Knowledge. Allow your self-discipline to be exerted
meaningfully today, to engage your mind in this way. For as the mind is brought
into proximity of its true destination, it will respond accordingly and
everything will follow its natural course. Then you will feel that Grace is
with you.
PRACTICE
135: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
The world offers many ways for us to choose our destiny, as show in the picture. Today’s Step suggests we stay free agents.
The world offers many ways for us to choose our destiny, as show in the picture. Today’s Step suggests we stay free agents.
Picture: Community
fair - Boulder, Colorado.
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.
