Knowledge: Preparing You for Purpose in Life
Marshall Vian Summers speaks during Day 10 of the 2015 Steps Vigil, June 4, 2015
Knowledge is a mysterious thing and on the other hand it’s the simplest thing in the world. When people begin the practice of Steps, they are told that they really know things and that Knowledge is what they really know. But you find out that Knowledge knows and you don’t.
In fact, the more that you come into the proximity of Knowledge and experience it, the more you see how much you really don’t know and how much belief is used to fortify oneself: assumptions, admonition against others, to take the place and to escape the sense that you don’t know. But not knowing and accepting that is what makes you open to Knowledge and humility.
So after a while you don’t have to keep asking questions of Knowledge, knowing that it knows exactly where you are, how far you’ve come, how far you have to go, and instead of a question, there’s a prayer. And the prayer is: Show me what I must do to find my way. Challenge me. Show me what I must do to find my way.
Because to ask, What is my purpose? cannot be answered with an answer. It really is a journey to take, and a great one at that. So it’s whether you can take that journey that is a question. To take that journey you must let Knowledge do its work and carry out what it gives you to do that you already know to do, and keep praying for the strength, the honesty and the humility to do those things.
Knowledge knows that you’re not ready to carry the responsibility of a greater purpose, so it’s really about getting you ready.
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