Greetings All –
I
will not neglect small things today. Step 192 (MP3)
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| I will not neglect small things today. Step 192 |
DO
NOT NEGLECT THE SMALL THINGS TODAY that are necessary for you to do. Doing
small things does not mean in any way that you are small. If you do not
identify with your behavior and activities, you can allow your greatness to
exist as you undertake them. Someone who is great can do small things without
complaint. Someone who is with Knowledge can undertake mundane activities
without any sense of disgrace. Activities are only activities. They do not
constitute your true nature or being. Your true nature or being is the source
of your life, which will express itself through your small activities as you
learn to receive it and to see it in proper perspective.
DO
NOT NEGLECT SMALL THINGS. Care for small things so that your life in the world
may be stable and may progress properly. Today, in your deeper practices, again
enter the greatness and the depth of Knowledge. Because you have attended to
small things, you can now spend this time of devotion and giving. In this way,
your outer life is managed properly, and your inner life is attended to as
well, for you are an intermediary between the life of greatness and life in the
world. Thus, you attend to the small and you receive the great. This is your
true function, for you are here to give Knowledge to the world.
AS
BEFORE, REPEAT YOUR PRACTICE UPON THE HOUR. Take it with you. Do not forget.
PRACTICE
192: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Remembering the hourly is
difficult for all students. If you are in the world working, time can be very
hard to keep track of. Simply a reminder that cell phones and computers can be
set up with hourly chimes. There is a skill to finding a tone.
As beginning students we must do the best we can. There is no failure.
Picture: A
gardener in Beijing attends to flowers on this road's median.
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.
