Accept the world as it is

Steps to Knowledge: The Book of Inner Knowing

Channelled through Marshall Vian Summers

Step 55

I WILL ACCEPT THE WORLD AS IT IS

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IDEALISM IS THE ATTEMPT NOT TO ACCEPT THE WORLD AS IT IS

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It justifies blame and condemnation. It establishes expectations

of a life that does not yet exist and thus renders you vulnerable to

grave disappointment. Your idealism fortifies your condemnation.

ACCEPT THE WORLD TODAY AS IT IS,

not as you want it to be. With

acceptance comes love, for you cannot love a world that you want to

exist. You can only love a world that exists as it is. Accept yourself now

as you exist, and true desire for change and advancement will naturally

emerge within you. Idealism justifies condemnation. Recognize this

great truth, and you will begin to have a more immediate and

profound experience of life and of that which is genuine and not

based upon hope or expectation but upon true engagement.

THEREFORE,

IN YOUR TWO

30-MINUTE PRACTICE PERIODS TODAY,

concentrate on accepting things exactly as they are. You are not

condoning violence, conflict or ignorance in doing this. You are merely

accepting the conditions that exist so that you may work with them

constructively. Without this acceptance, you have no starting place for

true engagement. Allow the world to be exactly as it is, for it is this

world that you have come to serve.

The Society for the Greater Community Way of Knowledge, Boulder, CO., U.S., 1999

This book consists of 365 lessons, to be practiced one a day. Free PDF file available here.

Marshall Vian Summers received Steps to Knowledge in a state of revelation during the days and nights of May 26 to June 14, 1989, in the garden level of a small house by a golf course in Albany, New York. It was recorded onto 11 audio cassettes and then transcribed into text.

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