Step 35 Review

Steps to Knowledge The Book of Inner Knowing

Step 35

Review

"THIS REVIEW WILL GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY to learn something of The Greater Community Way of Knowledge. In two 30-minute practice periods, review your prior week’s instructions and experiences in practice. Do this with as little judgment as possible. Merely look and see what was instructed, what you did and what the result was. This objective review will give you the greatest access to insight and understanding with a minimum of pain and self-abuse. You are learning now to become objective about your life without repressing the content of your emotions. Instead of attempting to destroy one aspect of yourself, you are simply attempting to cultivate another.

THEREFORE, IN YOUR REVIEW, use this as a guidepost: “I will look, but I will not judge. ” In this way, you will be able to recognize things. Remember how much easier it may be for you to have insight about another’s life and how little you may have about your own. Greater objectivity is possible with others because you are not attempting to use their life for any specific purpose and the extent to which you are, the less able you will be to understand them, their nature, their development or their destiny. Therefore, the less you attempt to use your life, the more you will be able to understand it, appreciate it and work with its intrinsic mechanism for your greater advancement.

Practice 35: Two 30-minute practice periods."

Last week the most painful event of my life happened. My soul-mate, my partner of 12 years passed onto the next stage of this journey we call life. I always thought the end of him would also be the end of me, but I am so blessed to have found the New Message beforehand.

The last 7 steps have taken me far longer than a week to walk. I started out observing my world to learn of Knowledge. I observed myself, my friends, my family, my acquaintances, and I saw two things: Knowledge, and the need for it. I expressed my wish to see a World I've never seen before. I felt the truth arising within myself, and I expressed very clearly that I have a mission in my life to fulfill. Upon reaching the step where I am now a beginning student of Knowledge, was the day my partner passed on. I can't help but wonder if his purpose in my life was to ensure I was seen from a chaotic young soul confused about the line between Love and Hatred, to a beginning student of Knowledge. If this was his purpose, he fulfilled it. I am ready.