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| I will use restraint today so that greatness may grow within me. Step 220 |
USE RESTRAINT REGARDING THOSE FACULTIES that you recognize
to be harmful or debilitating to the reclamation of Knowledge. Hold yourself
back intentionally so that Knowledge may grow within you. This is no limitation
that you place upon yourself. Instead, it is the meaningful use of your mind
and strength to cultivate an awareness of the Greater Power within you and to
allow it to emerge, to guide and to direct you.
IN TODAY’S LESSON, AS IN LESSONS PAST, you are
learning to recognize the source of Knowledge and the vehicle of Knowledge and not
to confuse the two. Learn restraint today so that Knowledge may grow within
you. Do not think that restraint merely refers to past behavior where you
limited what was genuine within yourself. No, your focus today is to learn the
form of intentional restraint that represents an expression of your power and
self-discipline. Your power and self-discipline must now be exercised to become
strong, for your mind and body are vehicles of Knowledge, and as vehicles, they
must be developed and strengthened.
IN YOUR DEEPER PRACTICES TODAY, as in your hourly
practices, restrain those forms of thinking and behavior that betray your Knowledge
so that you may enter Knowledge in stillness and in peace. With this restraint,
freedom will be discovered, for freedom is found beyond this world and is
brought into this world, for freedom is the gift of Knowledge.
PRACTICE 220: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly
practice.
From the journal: Step
219 - I will not let ambition deceive me today.
Monday,
March 26, 2001
8:20
p.m. A new pen – fine point – my ink will go farther. Practice #2 Step 219 – I
will not let ambition deceive me today.
Ambition
is not a problem – just staying in the game is a challenge. Some anger arises
again about the hatchet job being done on the accounting system. I was never a
fighter. Always lost fights, so I avoided them. I didn't fight for my job – I
didn't know how. Was that ACIM dreaming?
I
now get to do the planning, number crunching. I want to be a better database,
spreadsheet user –
9:35
p.m. Talked to David – followed up on email. His focus on trucks and his
business have gotten him into the PR – customer service world. I'm happy for
him.
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Step 219 – "…for it is not for you to use Knowledge but to receive
Knowledge. It is in your receptivity to K that you will find K to be of the
greatest service and usefulness to you".
10:20
p.m. An unstill meditation – antsy due to overeating, nervous movement… I have
no ambition?
Being practical – a fine pen point so my ink
cartridges will last longer. Ambition considered – that rarely thought of in my
life. Also on the practical side, now that it is “Back to School” time in the
U.S., composition books are on sale for 50 cents to a dollar at many stores.
Time to stock up – have some extras to give to your
friends.
NNC
Note: If you’ve some interest due to this or other
Steps, you should go to the beginning blog post. From here you will learn about Steps to Knowledge
and can begin it on the day that makes sense; then progress as needed. You can
use the posts on this blog as a companion if it helps. They will remain in
order in the archives - one post per Step.
Often it takes 18 months to get through the Steps
once. For this blog, the pace is one-a-day, but it really makes no difference
how fast you do it, only that you begin, persist and repeat. Posts here provide
a trail that may let you have a virtual companion when and if you want one. One
may have to study alone, as I did in the beginning. There are other Steps
students blogging their experience and you might find a person more like you as
a companion, or use a number of such Steps journeys. There are options as well
through the Free School of the New Message.
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