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I will not let ambition deceive me today. Step 219 (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive –
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| I will not let ambition deceive me today. Step 219 |
AS
KNOWLEDGE IS NOW BEGINNING TO GERMINATE within you, do not allow your own
ambition to deceive you. Your ambition is born of your personal need for
recognition and reassurance. It is an attempt to counteract fear by controlling
the opinions of others. Your ambition here is destructive, but like all other faculties
of mind that are now misappropriated, in time it can serve the greatness of
Knowledge. You have not achieved this state yet; therefore, do not attempt to
do anything with your Knowledge, for it is not for you to use Knowledge but to
receive Knowledge. It is in your receptivity to Knowledge that you will find
Knowledge to be of the greatest service and usefulness to you.
DO
NOT LET AMBITION PULL YOU WHERE YOU CANNOT GO. Do not let it misappropriate
your vitality and your energy. Learn to become patient and calm with Knowledge,
for Knowledge has its own goal and direction in life, which you are now
learning to follow.
THROUGHOUT
TODAY IN YOUR HOURLY PRACTICES and in your deeper meditations as well, allow
yourself to be without ambition, for you do not know what to do with Knowledge.
In your longer meditations, allow this to free you so that you may enter
stillness and leave the world of physical things.
PRACTICE
219: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Picture: A
limo ride in Budapest for some young ones. Will they be ambitious when they
become adults?
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.
