Step Two Hundred and Seventy-Nine
Therefore, give yourself to practice, preparation and application. Do not identify merely with ideas, for even the greatest idea is meant to be an expression in changeable circumstances and will itself be unstable. To have genuine stability in the world, you must identify with Knowledge and allow Knowledge to demonstrate its power, its efficacy and its benevolence within the world. You must experience your freedom to value it and to comprehend its meaning in the world. This is why you are a student of Knowledge. And this is why you must apply everything that you are learning in your preparation here.
Remember this upon the hour as you are engaged in the world. Remember this in your deeper meditation practices where you are engaged in your inner life. In both arenas, Knowledge must prevail. In both arenas, your freedom must be exercised to be realized. In your deeper meditations, exercise the strength of your mind to enable it to come into stillness and quietude. Do not let fear or ambivalence dominate you this day. You are practicing your freedom and exercising it, for you can only be free when you are still inside, and if you are still inside, you are free already.
Practice 279: Two 30-minute practice periods. Hourly practice.
For some reason, I am recalling Winnie the Pooh here and a quote of his from A.A. Milne I am very partial to.
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." - A. A. MilneI won't go into my own interpretation of what I think Pooh is saying here, but for some reason it seems to go right along with this Step for me.
April 13, 2019 Round Three: I can only be free when I am still inside, and if I am still inside, I am already free. To have genuine stability in the world, I must identify with Knowledge and allow Knowledge to demonstrate its power, efficacy and benevolence within the world.
The sky is overcast and heavy. It feels like it is getting ready to rain. A good day for staying cozy inside and being still. I am still awaiting word from my employer. My husband said wait, My daughter said wait, Knowledge says wait. So wait I will. I will wait until Monday.
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