Step One Hundred and Seventy-Two

Step 172. I Must Reclaim My Knowledge.

You must reclaim your Knowledge. It is not merely a preference in competition with other preferences. The fact that it is a requirement in life gives it the necessity and the importance that it truly deserves. Think not that your freedom is in any way hindered by this necessity, for your freedom is the result of this necessity and will be born of this necessity. Here you enter a world of vital direction rather than casual choices. Here you become seriously engaged in life rather than a removed observer who can only witness your own ideas.

The necessity of Knowledge, then, is the importance that it bears for you and for your world. Welcome necessity, then, for it frees you from the aggravation and the disability of ambivalence. It rescues you from meaningless choices and directs you to that which is truly vital for your well-being and for the well-being of the world. Knowledge is a necessity. Your life is a necessity. Its importance is not merely for you alone, but for the world as well.

If you can comprehend this in truth, this will override any sense of unworthiness or indolence that you may still possess. For if your life is a necessity, then it has purpose, meaning and direction. If your life is a necessity, then all other lives are a necessity as well. In this, you will wish to harm no one but instead will seek to affirm Knowledge in everyone. This necessity, then, bears with it the strength and the direction that you require and provides you with the grace and depth that you must receive for yourself. A necessary life is a meaningful life. Knowledge is a necessity. Give yourself to your necessity, and you will feel that you are a necessity yourself. This will dispel your sense of unworthiness and guilt and bring you back into relationship with life.

Practice again upon the hour, and in your two meditation practices allow the word RAHN to take you deeper into the presence of Knowledge itself. The power of this word, a word unknown within your own language, will resonate with your Knowledge and will stimulate it. Thus, the means are mysterious, but the result is concrete.

Practice 172: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

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Here you will find pointers for getting started if this is your first encounter with this practice: Taking the Steps to Knowledge.

July 16, 2013 Round One: "Here you enter a world of vital direction rather than casual choices."

This is the truth of my life today, I truly feel the necessity of reclaiming Knowledge, while also feeling the freedom it entails. It is not a burden, not a chore that has to be done before I can go on to more entertaining pursuits, it is the meaning and direction of my life, even the be-all and end-all of my life, for without Knowledge my life is meaningless. I feel the necessity of my life, I am moving through my sense of unworthiness and guilt to emerge into a place that is brighter, infused with meaning and purpose. My life has direction and I thank the New Message and Steps to Knowledge for bringing me this clarity.

January 17, 2015 Round Two: I can reiterate all I wrote the first time. I continue to have a solid understanding that reclaiming Knowledge is a necessity of life. It gives purpose, meaning and direction to my life. Without Knowledge and my efforts to reclaim it, I would be drifting meaninglessly goodness knows where. I must get to the heart of things.

December 20, 2018 Round Three: Knowledge is a necessity, which makes my life a necessity. I am freed from ambivalence and unworthiness regarding myself and my own life. I am entering a life of vital direction, rather than casual choices. This is so very potent and what I am doing. My life is becoming ever more focussed and direction-oriented. I am working to build my house and the benefits will remain to be seen. Meditation - 4.41 - 5.01. I went below the surface mind to the deeper mind of Knowledge. It is intense and vibrant - dark and penetrating, but full of light and treasure. I felt the Presence and intense expansion, all is well. Lots of new fluffy snow, large flocks. I lay down in it, it was like a soft caressing blanket.