x2 Step 331 - What is small expresses that which is great. – Journal – Step 330

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What is small expresses that which is great. Step 331

LOOK AT NATURE AROUND YOU. Look at the tiniest creature and realize the mystery of that creature’s existence, the wonder of its physical mechanism and the truth of its total inclusion in nature as a whole. The smallest creature can express the greatest truth. The simplest thing can express the power of the universe. Does a creature that is small express life and inclusion in life any less than a creature that is great? Using this analogy, realize that the smallest activity can embody the greatest teaching. Realize that the simplest word, the most common gesture, can express the deepest feeling and emotion. Realize that the simplest thing can add to your practice and confirm the presence of Knowledge within you.

AS YOU BECOME ATTENTIVE TO LIFE, you will begin to witness the mystery of life in all things. How great this will be for you who are now awakening from the sleep of your own separate imagination. The mystery of life will inspire you and call to you. It will confirm the mystery of your own life, which is becoming ever more real and demonstrative to you.

YOU MAY FEEL SMALL, but you express the great. You do not need to be great to express the great because greatness is within you, and your physical vehicle is small in comparison to it. Your reality is born of the greatness that is with you that wishes to express itself in the simplicity of your small vehicle. Here you understand that you are of the great and you are working through the small. Here you will not contradict the relationship between the great and the small, where the small must express the great, which it does naturally. Does a little creature have to attempt to express the great? No. The great merely expresses itself through the little creature.

THUS, IN YOUR LIFE—which at any moment may look small to you, which at any moment may look separate and confined—greatness is with you. Therefore, the small is utilized, confirmed, honored and blessed. Then, there is no basis for self-condemnation and hatred. All things great and small become appreciated, for all things great and small are together.

UPON THE HOUR, THEN, WITHIN WHATEVER SMALL TASK, within whatever expression or gesture and within whatever small view, allow the great to express itself. In your two deeper practice periods, come again into the proximity of that which is great within you. Re-enter the fire of Knowledge which purifies you. Take sanctuary in the sanctuary of Knowledge. Here you encounter the great completely. This is beyond all form. Here that which infuses all form and gives it purpose, meaning and direction awaits you to receive it. The small expresses the great, and the great blesses the small.

PRACTICE 331: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly

From the journal:  Step 330 - I will not neglect small things in my life.

8:36 a.m. Sunday, July 15, 2001

Step 330 "I will not neglect the small things in my life". In the past, at the office, I did so many small things, I did neglect my life. These days I ignore small things that are outside my direct life.

The text today says: "Remember you are not attempting to escape the world, but are working to become powerful within the world".

All my life I've not wanted power over others – I want to have ideas that do improve the world – regional community is a powerful idea – but there's no advocate for it but me – though there are practitioners.

→ As I read the Step last night, and thought about its impact on my life S2K – and the note I wrote last year –

 

6/10/2000 – "Visited GC website. I don't Know that it does justice to the power of the material – of K".

11:54 a.m. Elizabeth Furnace – GW Forest – Fort Valley –

– to externalize competition – using the regional framework. The ultimate framework is the local planet. Competition among brothers and sisters is to strengthen muscles, sharpen skills – Jointed Incrementalism is an option when communication is introduced. Com-munication – true communication is the basis of all community. It need be conscious.

I have come to this place, this field, to remember the good times here with Sarah – and to strengthen Knowledge and myself, and her – and David, and Cindy –

                               Amen & Amen

                                       Tom

11:54 p.m. Been doing small things all day. ---

Doing small things still. Let us continue.

NNC

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