Greetings All –
You are learning to understand how you learn. Review
Step 126 (MP3)
[Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive – Step
PDF also.]
TODAY’S
REVIEW WILL CONCENTRATE UPON THE PAST WEEK of training. It will emphasize once
again that you are learning to learn. You are learning to understand how you
learn. You are learning to understand your strengths and your weaknesses. You
are learning to understand your predispositions—those qualities in yourself
that you must cultivate and those qualities which you must arrest and bring
under conscious control. You are learning to be observant of yourself. Thus,
you are learning at last to be objective with yourself. This objectivity is
especially important, for it allows you to utilize that which is there to serve
you without your condemnation. In this way, your service to yourself becomes
immediate and effective.
IF
YOU CAN LEARN TO BE OBJECTIVE WITH YOURSELF, you can learn to be objective with
the world. This will allow Knowledge to shine through you, for you will not be
attempting to make the world into what you wish it to be, and you will not be
attempting to make yourself into what you wish yourself to be. This is the
beginning of true resolution and true happiness, but even greater than this, it
is the beginning of genuine contribution.
IN
YOUR ONE LONG PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY review the past week, keeping these things
in mind. Strengthen your experience of Knowledge today by supporting its
outward manifestations and doubt not the power of this preparation to bring you
to Knowledge itself.
PRACTICE
126: One long practice period.
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.
