1 Kings 6:13 · World English Bible
1 Kings 6:13 Meaning I Will Dwell Among the Children
I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
What does 1 Kings 6:13 mean?
That which you call God is not somewhere far above, watching from a distance. It dwells here, closer than your own breath, as the awareness in which every moment arises.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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Ego v. Being
That which you call God is not somewhere far above, watching from a distance. It dwells here, closer than your own breath, as the awareness in which every moment arises. It has never left you, because it is the presence looking out through your eyes right now.
You may forget this. You may lose yourself in thought and feel abandoned, alone in the noise of the mind. Yet the stillness beneath the noise remains. I will not forsake you means the awareness that you are does not come and go. You lose sight of it when you are lost in thinking, but it is always here, being you.
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Live 1 Kings 6:13 today
- Sometime today, when you reach for your phone out of habit, pause with your hand still on it for three breaths. The quiet that is there before you unlock the screen is the same quiet that was there all morning while you were too busy to feel it.
- When someone talks to you at dinner or in the hallway, let your attention rest on them rather than on the reply you are forming. Being with another person is one of the easiest ways to feel that you were never alone in the first place.
- In the middle of a rough stretch, a tense meeting, a crowded commute, a late email that lands badly, feel your feet on the ground for a moment. The thought says you are abandoned. The ground says otherwise.
Where today did you feel alone, when the quiet underneath was right there with you?
The same truth in other traditions
Upanishads
The deepest self in you and the ground of all being are not two things. What you are looking for is what is looking.
Sufism · Rumi
You wander the world asking where the beloved is, while the one you seek is the nearness inside your own chest, closer than the question.
Zen
The fish asks what the ocean is. Awareness is not something you enter or leave, it is what you are swimming in right now.
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