1 John 2:24 · World English Bible
Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
Long before any thought or teaching, a person already knows something quiet and close, present from the first moment of being alive. That knowing is the plain sense of being here, underneath the whole story of who you are.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
Long before any thought or teaching, a person already knows something quiet and close, present from the first moment of being alive. That knowing is the plain sense of being here, underneath the whole story of who you are. When it is let alone, it stays. Buried under the noise of the mind, it goes quiet but never dies.
What abides from the beginning is not a set of beliefs to defend but the still awareness that was there before any belief arrived. When that awareness remains, a person will rest again in the source of their own being and in the life that flows from it, no longer cut off from either. Staying near it, they come home to what they always were.
Ego v. Being lens
What was here in me before I learned who I was supposed to be?
Your original face is the one you had before your parents were born, meaning the awareness that was there before any story about you began.
Return to being like an uncarved block, to the plain state you were in before the world shaped you into something.
The self you are looking for is not reached by study or argument. It reveals itself to the one who stops long enough to be quiet.
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Ego v. Being