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1 Samuel 3:7 · World English Bible

1 Samuel 3:7 Meaning Now Samuel Didn’t Yet Know Yahweh

Now Samuel didn’t yet know Yahweh, neither was Yahweh’s word yet revealed to him.

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What does 1 Samuel 3:7 mean?

There is a knowing that has nothing to do with information. You can hold every idea about the sacred in your mind and still not know it at all, because real knowing is not something the mind can grasp.

From the Ego v. Being reading below.

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EGO & BEING

Ego v. Being

There is a knowing that has nothing to do with information. You can hold every idea about the sacred in your mind and still not know it at all, because real knowing is not something the mind can grasp. It is a direct recognition, a waking up to the living presence that was here the whole time.

Before that recognition, the deeper reality is not absent. It is simply unrecognized. It calls, quietly and repeatedly, yet is not heard for what it is. What changes in the moment of awakening is not that presence finally arrives. It is that you grow still enough, and present enough, to notice what had been speaking to you all along.

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Live 1 Samuel 3:7 today

  1. Before the first scroll of the morning, sit up and stay quiet for one minute. Do not look for anything, just be awake and let that be the whole minute.
  2. In your next conversation, listen without preparing your answer. You may hear what the person actually means, which is usually under the words.
  3. When the day gets loud, pause for three breaths between two tasks. Nothing new arrives, but you may find you are already here.

What have you been looking for as if it were far away?

The same truth in other traditions

Zen

A raft carries you across the river, then you leave it on the bank. Ideas about the truth are the raft, and standing on dry land is something else entirely.

Upanishads

That which you are looking for is the one doing the looking. It was never somewhere else waiting to be found.

Sufism · Rumi

You have been knocking from inside the door the whole time. The search ends not in arrival but in recognizing where you already stand.

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