内识进阶

STEP 268 I WILL NOT BE DECEIVED BY COMPLEXITY TODAY.Problems in the world become complex when there is a difficulty that requires correction and development, and that becomes mixed with everyone’s preferences, everyone’s desire to protect what they have and everyone’s competition with each other. Thus it is that problems in the world become complex, and no matter what you do to attempt to solve them, somebody is disenfranchised. Someone is upset. Someone loses. In your societies this is...

STEP 267 THERE IS A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO ALL PROBLEMS THAT FACE ME TODAY.All problems that face you individually have a very simple answer. How will you find this answer? Will you find it by struggling with yourself? Will you find it by trying every possible resolution that you can think of? Will you find it by worrying about it and fretting over it? Will you find it by denying it and seeking pleasurable stimulation instead? Will you find it by sinking into depression and thinking that life is...

STEP 266 REVIEWToday as before review the past two weeks of preparation. Take this opportunity in your long practice period today to review all that has transpired in these past two weeks concerning the directions given in this preparation, your experiences of the practices and the overall results in your life. Carry on this Review with as much objectivity as you can, especially regarding the results in your life, many of which you still cannot assess objectively....

STEP 265 THERE IS A GREATER FREEDOM AWAITING ME.Knowledge will require you to be free of the past and free of anxiety over the future. It will require you to be present with life. It will require you to be open and honest. It will require you to have faith and consistent selfapplication. It will require that you not be in conflict. It will require that you have great love and respect for yourself and a great appreciation for the world. It will require that you be able to experience your...

STEP 264 I WILL LEARN OF FREEDOM THIS DAY.Today you will have an opportunity to learn more about freedom. The step you take today will be very substantial in giving you a new viewpoint about freedom, about bondage, about problem solving and about the nature of true advancement. 今天，你将有机会进一步学习自由。你今天迈出的这一步，将为你带来关于自由、关于束缚、关于解决问题以及关于真实进步自然的新视角。 Today think about your lesson on the hour and think about what freedom is. In your longer practice periods, devote your mind to thinking about freedom....

STEP 263 WITH KNOWLEDGE ALL THINGS BECOME CLEAR.Why engage in additional speculation? Why project further blame or judgment? Why make your life more complex and more frustrating when all things become clear with Knowledge? Why make your mind more complex? Why attribute more and more qualities to yourself? Why invent new levels of thinking and being when with Knowledge all things become clear? Why project more and more distinctions upon the world? Why make the world seem so hopelessly complex...

STEP 262 HOW CAN I JUDGE MYSELF WHEN I DO NOT KNOW WHO I AM?If you do not know who you are, you can only judge what you think you are. Your thoughts about yourself are largely based upon your expectations and disappointments. It is very difficult to observe yourself from within your personal mind, for your personal mind is made up of your personal thoughts, which are not born of Knowledge. To view yourself with Knowledge, you must be in relationship with Knowledge. This will lead you to...

STEP 261 I MUST LEARN TO GIVE WITH DISCERNMENT.If you give without personal ambition, you will give according to Knowledge, and your gift will be specific and given in such a way that it will empower you and those who can receive your gift. This is Knowledge guiding you. If you try to give for your own self-aggrandizement, if you try to give for your own self-assurance or if you try to give to alleviate an abiding sense of guilt or inadequacy, you will not give with discernment. Your giving,...

STEP 260 I AM A FRIEND OF THE WORLD TODAY.You are a friend of the world today, and as you experience this you will experience the world as a friend to you, for the world can only reflect your purpose as you express and experience it. Here you will experience a new world with Knowledge, a world that you had not considered before, a world that you only momentarily experienced before....

STEP 259 I HAVE COME TO TEACH IN THE WORLD.You have come to teach. All you have been doing is teaching since you arrived here. Your thoughts and your behavior are the vehicles for teaching. Even as a little child you taught and delighted and frustrated those who loved you. Throughout every stage of your life you have taught, for teaching is the natural function of demonstrating life. Thus, you naturally have a teaching function. Even if you do not carry this out in any formal sense with...