1 John 2:14 · World English Bible
I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
To know the one who is from the beginning is to know that in you which was never born and does not age, the formless awareness present before every thought and every experience. This is the true source of strength, not the willpower of the ego but the quiet power of Being that abides in you.
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EGO & BEING
To know the one who is from the beginning is to know that in you which was never born and does not age, the formless awareness present before every thought and every experience. This is the true source of strength, not the willpower of the ego but the quiet power of Being that abides in you.
When that presence is alive in you, you have overcome the wicked one, which is nothing other than unconsciousness itself, the egoic mind that generates fear and conflict. You do not defeat it by fighting it. You outgrow it, becoming so rooted in present awareness that the old fearful patterns can no longer take you over.
Ego v. Being lens
When the day gets loud, is there anything in me that stays quiet underneath it?
Mastering others takes force, but knowing yourself is real clarity, and the one who holds their own center has a strength that does not need to push.
Under all the changing moods and years there is something in you that was never born and does not wear out. That is what you actually are.
You do not win against a noisy mind by wrestling it. You sit still until the noise loses interest.
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Ego v. Being