x2 Step 201 - My mind was made to serve Knowledge. – Journal – Step 200

Today:  Step 201 - My mind was made to serve Knowledge. (MP3)

My mind was made to serve Knowledge. Step 201

UNDERSTANDING THIS, YOU WILL REALIZE THE VALUE of your mind, and you will not deprecate it. Realizing this, you will understand the value of your body, and you will not deprecate it. For your mind and your body are but vehicles to express Knowledge. In this, you become the recipient of Knowledge. In this, you remember your great Heritage. In this, you are comforted by the assurance of your great destiny.

THERE IS NO ILLUSION HERE. There is no self-deception here. Here all things find their right order. Here you understand the true proportion of all things. Here you understand the value of your mind, and you will not want to give it tasks of which it is not capable. Thus, your mind becomes constructively applied and will be unburdened with attempting the impossible. Realizing this, you will see that your body is made to serve your mind, and you will understand the value of your body and its great application as a tool for communication. In this, you will accept its limitations, for limited it must be. You will also appreciate its mechanism. You will appreciate all of the encounters that you have with other individuals in this world. You will be glad, then, that you have a mind and a body so that you may communicate the power and the essence of Knowledge.

REPEAT YOUR IDEA FOR TODAY UPON THE HOUR and consider it. In your two deeper meditation practices, allow your mind to become still so that it may learn to serve. You must relearn that which is natural to you, for you have learned the unnatural, which must now be unlearned. In its place the natural will be stimulated, for when the natural is stimulated, it becomes expressed. Then the mind re-engages with its true function, and all things find their true value.

PRACTICE 201: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.

From the journal:  

March 7, 2001

10:12 p.m. Practice #2 My thoughts are too small to contain Knowledge.

This has been a stressful day – work projects moving – River Recreation a mass with Trace’s rant – I just want my check. The realization that Sarah can't raise a baby…and that she'll be a burden to David. Hard times lie ahead.

Step 200 – My thoughts are too small to contain Knowledge.

I want Knowledge to serve me in my problems, but I am the one to serve Knowledge – Holy Spirit.

The Steps page has a graphic which is an attempt to illustrate the Step: My thoughts are too small to contain Knowledge. K is, of course, Knowledge and I am the dot on the page.

 

Truly, in Steps, our minds may make progress, unaccompanied by the world in which we find ourselves. Nothing to do but continue, so let us do so.

NNC

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