2 Samuel 14:14 · World English Bible
For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Every form must end. A person is like water poured out on dry earth, spreading and sinking away, and no hand gathers that water back into the cup it came from.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
Every form must end. A person is like water poured out on dry earth, spreading and sinking away, and no hand gathers that water back into the cup it came from. The passing is honest and cannot be undone, and the same fate meets everyone without exception.
Yet the water is not lost. What looks banished, driven off, cut away, is not finally thrown out. A way is made for it to be drawn home again. The spilling was never the whole story. The ground that seemed to swallow it holds it, and what seemed exiled is welcomed back into the source it fell from.
Ego v. Being lens
If nothing here lasts and nothing is finally lost, how does that change today?
The forms come and go like the seasons, and the one who sees this stops grieving the turning. Nothing that returns to the source is lost.
Everything made of parts comes apart, and that is not a flaw in it. Holding this honestly is where peace with dying begins.
The reed cries because it was cut from the reed bed, and the song is the longing to return. The ache itself is the proof that home exists.
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Ego v. Being