Step One Hundred and Eighty-One
Step 181. Today I Receive The Love Of Knowledge.
Knowledge possesses the true
seed of love, not love that is a mere sentiment, not love that is a form of
intoxication surrounding an urgent desire born of fear. Knowledge is the seed
of true love, not the love that seeks to conquer, to possess and to dominate,
but the love that seeks to serve, to empower and to free another. Become the
recipient of this love today so that it may flow through you to the world, for
without your denial it will most surely do this.
Upon the hour, repeat this statement and feel its full impact, regardless of the circumstance that you find yourself in. Allow each circumstance to support your practice, and you will find that your practice will have an increasingly potent effect on your external life. In your two deeper practices today, enter into the presence of Knowledge and receive its love. Affirm your worthiness and your receptivity. Relinquish your presumptions about yourself and the world, and allow yourself to have an experience that will demonstrate the truth beyond any assumption. This is your practice today. This is your gift to yourself, to your world and to your Creator so that you may receive the gift of love.
Practice 181: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Upon the hour, repeat this statement and feel its full impact, regardless of the circumstance that you find yourself in. Allow each circumstance to support your practice, and you will find that your practice will have an increasingly potent effect on your external life. In your two deeper practices today, enter into the presence of Knowledge and receive its love. Affirm your worthiness and your receptivity. Relinquish your presumptions about yourself and the world, and allow yourself to have an experience that will demonstrate the truth beyond any assumption. This is your practice today. This is your gift to yourself, to your world and to your Creator so that you may receive the gift of love.
Practice 181: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
Here you will find pointers for getting started if this is your first encounter
with this practice: Taking the Steps to
Knowledge.
August 1, 2013 Round
One: "Knowledge is the seed of true love, not the love that seeks to conquer, to possess and to dominate, but the love that seeks to serve, to empower and to free another."
Oh, how potent this is and I truly want to be its recipient! I do not deny this love, so let it flow through me, as it surely will, so says the Step.
And I wish to experience that which "will demonstrate the truth beyond any assumption." I can tolerate it, I am ready for this Truth, bring it on!
Oh, how potent this is and I truly want to be its recipient! I do not deny this love, so let it flow through me, as it surely will, so says the Step.
And I wish to experience that which "will demonstrate the truth beyond any assumption." I can tolerate it, I am ready for this Truth, bring it on!
January 28, 2015 Round
Two: It has been very appropriate for me that this Step coincided with the last
day of the Messenger’s Vigil broadcast live from Boulder, Colorado. I was able
to make it to each broadcast the past seven days, being the early bird that I am, since in Moscow
the time was 5.00 am. And this morning it began at 4.00 am my time.
And it was worth it
beyond measure.
Today Marshall spoke, and I was happy to see that he and his
family had returned safely from their trip. Marshall said some things that
spoke deeply to me.
Here are a few small excerpts of what touched me the most.
“God’s New Revelation is something very precious. It shows us how God considers
us, it shows us how we are regarded by the Angelic Assembly. Without judgment,
without anger, without revenge, without the intent to punish, knowing that
without the Knowledge that is placed within us, we will be prone to error, we
will make mistakes, we will treat ourselves and others cruelly. And until we
find that Knowledge, that will be our plight. No matter how sweet our
disposition, or how positive our attitude, underneath we are suffering at that
level. And why would God condemn us for that? …
"How God regards you is so very
different from how you regard yourself and others. Throughout the Revelation is
this regard for you, that you mean something, that you are really important, your
life is a meaningful event with purpose and destiny, not your purpose and
destiny. …
"Within your mind you are constantly distinguishing yourself from
others…and taking sides in conflicts…and being partisan in that way. [The
Revelation says], Do no harm, will no harm – that’s a practice wherever you go.
…
"So how you are regarded in the Revelation, the value given to your life and
the meaning of your destiny is something for you to adopt. …
"So to turn the
tide we begin to practice – do no harm, seek no harm – being compassionate, not
disregarding people, listening to people, knowing why they suffer, why they
make mistakes, why they do cruel things – because this is how Heaven thinks,
and looks, and listens.”
December 29, 2018 Round Three: I am to relinquish my presumption about myself and demonstrate the truth beyond any assumption. Knowledge possesses the true seed of love - a love that seeks to empower, serve and free another. I am to be the recipient of this love today so that it may flow through me to the world. Let this be so.
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