Greetings All –
Today
practice objectivity… Step 224 - Review (MP3) [Open in Drive or copy to your Drive – Download folder or play
from Drive – Step PDF also.]
TODAY
PRACTICE OBJECTIVITY BY REVIEWING the last two weeks of practice. Once again,
read each lesson for the day and recall your practice for that day. Begin with
the first practice of the two-week period, and then follow each day step by
step. Strengthen your ability to observe your progress objectively. See what
happens on days when you are strong with practice and on days when you are
weak. Imagine for a moment as you do this that you are looking through the eyes
of your Teachers who are watching your life from far above. They are without
condemnation. They are merely taking note of your strengths and weaknesses,
strengthening the former and minimizing the effects of the latter. As you learn
to view your life objectively, you will learn to see your life through the eyes
of your Teachers. This is looking with Knowledge. This is looking without
judgment. Given this, the mind becomes a vehicle for Knowledge, and Knowledge
will bestow upon you all the ideas and the activities that are truly beneficial
for you.
ALLOW
YOUR REVIEW PRACTICE PERIOD TODAY to be engaged on your own behalf. Utilize
your mind purposefully and do not allow it to wander. Break the habit of
thinking mindlessly. Break the habit of preoccupying yourself with foolish and
meaningless things. Allow your Review today to demonstrate to you that you are
a true student of Knowledge.
PRACTICE
224: 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.
