Greetings All –
Learn
more of the process of learning. Review Step 161 (MP3)
[Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play from Drive –
Step PDF also.]
IN
YOUR REVIEW TODAY, CONSIDER EACH LESSON and each practice of each day in the
past week. Learn more of the process of learning. Realize that to learn this
you cannot view your life with condemnation, for you are learning to learn.
Realize that wealth is apparent in your life because of the practices that you
are undertaking, which you could not do if you were without Knowledge. You are
undertaking this preparation because of Knowledge, and each day you are
committed to your practice because of Knowledge. Each day you accomplish your
practice because of Knowledge. Thus, without your denial or interference, Knowledge
itself will guide you in your preparation and will emerge as you undertake each
step. How easy is success in this way. How simple it is to receive without
denial or insistence on your part. For without imagination, life is evident.
Its beauty is evident. Its grace is evident. Its purpose is evident. The work
that it requires is evident. Its rewards are evident. Even the difficulties of
this world are evident. Everything becomes evident as your mind becomes still
and clear.
THEREFORE,
IN ONE LONG PRACTICE PERIOD review the week’s practices. Give this your full
attention. Give yourself to your practice and know that Knowledge within you is
motivating you.
PRACTICE
161: 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.
