2 Peter 1:19 · World English Bible
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
Something steadier than thought lives underneath the noise of a person's days, and it does not flicker the way opinions and moods do. It burns quietly, like a small flame in a dark room, and when attention rests on it the darkness loses its hold.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
Something steadier than thought lives underneath the noise of a person's days, and it does not flicker the way opinions and moods do. It burns quietly, like a small flame in a dark room, and when attention rests on it the darkness loses its hold. The mind cannot manufacture this steadiness. It can only be turned toward and trusted.
Heeding that light is not straining to understand it. A person simply lets it shine, and by staying near it the inner room grows less dim. Then the promise begins to keep itself. The dawn does not arrive from somewhere far off. The day star rises within, and the one who waited discovers the light was already theirs, waking now in the heart.
Ego v. Being lens
What steady thing is already lit in me that I keep walking past in the noise?
Return to stillness and you return to the root. The one who settles there sees clearly, while the restless keep stirring up the water they are trying to look through.
The lamp in a windless place does not flicker. A mind that has stopped being blown around rests in its own steady light.
You do not make the moon shine by thinking hard about it. You only stop raising dust, and the reflection appears on still water.
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Ego v. Being