Greetings All –
Relationships will come to me when I am prepared. Step
130 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive –
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| Relationships will come to me when I am prepared. Step 130 |
WHY
STRIVE FOR RELATIONSHIPS IN THE WORLD when genuine relationships will come to
you as you are prepared? To understand this, you must have great faith in the
power of Knowledge within yourself and within others. As this awareness grows,
the basis for your striving and desperate pursuits will fall away, making true
peace and accomplishment possible for you.
INDIVIDUALS
WILL COME TO YOU through mysterious means because you are cultivating
Knowledge. As you have relationships with one another on a personal level, you
also have relationships on the level of Knowledge. It is this level that you
will begin to experience, in small increments at first. Eventually, if you
pursue your preparations appropriately, this experience will grow and become
quite profound for you.
YOU
DO NOT NEED TO SEEK FOR RELATIONSHIPS. You need only give yourself to your
preparation and have confidence that people will come to you when you need
them. This will require that you assess your needs in contrast to your wishes.
If your wishes do not represent your genuine needs, then you will confuse your
life terribly. You will place a burden upon yourself and upon those with whom
you are engaged that can only oppress them, and you as well. Without this
oppression, people will be free to come to you as you truly need them.
REMIND
YOURSELF OF THIS UPON THE HOUR TODAY, and in your two longer practice periods
allow your mind to enter receptivity. Allow yourself to feel the presence of
your Teachers. Do not exacerbate yourself with desires for relationship and
your requirements for individuals or for what they may possess. Have confidence
today that Knowledge will draw all people to you as you truly need them.
PRACTICE
130: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Picture: Lake
Forest Oasis – Illinois Tollway – overlooking the roadway below - seats
available for the relationships to come.
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.
