Greetings All –
I
will not be afraid today. Step 162 (MP3)
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| I will not be afraid today. Step 162 |
TODAY
LET NOT FEAR OVERTAKE YOUR MIND. Let not the habit of negative imagination
capture your attention and emotions. Be involved with life as it truly is,
which you may perceive without condemnation. Fear is like a disease that comes
and takes you over. But you need not give in to fear because your source and
your roots are deeply planted in Knowledge, and you are now becoming stronger
in Knowledge.
REMIND
YOURSELF UPON THE HOUR not to let fear overtake you. When you begin to feel its
effects, in whatever manner that it exerts its influence upon you, withdraw
from it and claim your allegiance to Knowledge. Give your confidence to
Knowledge. In your two deeper practice periods today, give yourself to
Knowledge. Give your mind and your heart so that you may be strengthened in
that certainty where fear can never enter. Your fearlessness in the future must
not be born of pretense, but born of your certainty in Knowledge. In this way,
you will be a refuge of peace and a source of wealth for others. This is what you
are meant to be. This is why you have come into the world.
PRACTICE
162: Two 30-minute practice periods.
Hourly practice.
Picture: Locks
keep somethings in and other things out. Do not be afraid; this for your safety.
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.
