What Takes You to Knowledge?

Watch Marshall Vian Summers speak during the 2020 Steps Vigil, May 27, 2020.

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One of the things that Steps to Knowledge does is, it sort of deflates your false objective, like it says, “There’s no masters living in the world.” [ Step 106 ] So you can’t do this for mastery. That’s ambition. Ambition is not what takes you to Knowledge. 

And the amazing thing is—I didn’t realize this ‘til later—what takes you to Knowledge is Knowledge. What gets you into these Steps is Knowledge. The very thing you keep looking for but we can’t find is the thing that’s actually moving you. 

It’s like people will say, who come to be with us, “I’m not really sure what Knowledge is in me.” And I say: Well, Knowledge brought you here, or Knowledge is taking you through Steps to Knowledge.

It’s like what I said last evening about different levels of our mind. We have an executive function, which plans our days and keeps a schedule and makes sure our to-do list gets accomplished. But then there’s a higher executive level that doesn’t debate, doesn’t whine, doesn’t compare, doesn’t go on and off. It’s like, “I’m doing this. I’m doing this.”

There’s no debate. There’s no like, “Do I really want to? Do I really have to do this? No. “Today I’m doing this.” You see the difference, how powerful one is and how weak the other is? You could be talked out of almost anything by a persuasive person, but not at this level. If you’re worrying your life about manipulation and all that, become strong with Knowledge. That’s the only way out of that dilemma.

Knowledge is taking us to Knowledge. “So why am I doing this anyway? I need to do this.” Now you may only have that feeling for a brief time, but it will come back because you’ll be making your connection to it as you go forward.