x2 Step 166 - My mission is great. Therefore I am free to do small things – Journal – Step 165

Today: Step 166 - My mission is great. Therefore I am free to do small things. (MP3)

“My mission is great. Therefore I am free to do small things.” Step 166

  

IT IS ONLY IN YOUR GRANDIOSE IDEAS, which are a cover for fear, anxiety and despair, that you would avoid the small things that are required of you to do in the world. Again, do not confuse the greatness of your mission with the smallness of your duties. Greatness expresses itself in the smallest thing, in the tiniest action, in the most fleeting thought, in the simplest gesture and in the most mundane circumstances. Thus, maintain your small actions in the world so that Knowledge in time may express itself through them. Actions in the world are small in contrast to the greatness of Knowledge. Prior to your preparation, the world was considered great and Knowledge small, but you are now learning that the opposite is true—that Knowledge is great and the world is small. This also means that your activities in the world are small, but they are vehicles through which Knowledge may express itself.

THEREFORE, BE CONTENT DOING SMALL THINGS IN THE WORLD. Be simple and humble in the world so that greatness may flow through you without obstruction.

THIS PRACTICE WILL REQUIRE REPETITION upon the hour and deep consideration in your two longer practice periods, where you will engage your mind actively in comprehending the meaning of today’s idea. Use your mind for investigation. Allow yourself to consider these things. Do not rely on conclusions but continue your exploration. This is the right use of your mind which will lead you to a greater understanding. Here the mind is not merely weaving visions and illusions to take itself away from its own anxiety. Here the mind is examining its own content. Here the mind is working on behalf of Knowledge, as it was intended to do.

PRACTICE 166: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

On the right edge of the picture, the student, here a worker at the Getty Center in LA, is doing something small, perhaps aware of a mission as great as this grand columned space.

From the journal Step 165 - My duties are small. My mission is great.

7:45 a.m. January 31, 2001 – 2nd start – rest 10 pages down –

#165 "My duties are small. My mission is great.”

My RI is emerged from my planning work. It is a focus on communication/coordination/cooperation/ community

Community has the first three. It is the sum.

"What can we do together?"

What can we do together? That is a constant question in life. What needs to be done? What we need to do will be emerging in our lives as a consequence of our undertaking Steps. Let us continue.

NNC

 

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