Acts 5:4 · World English Bible
While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.
No one asked you to give what was yours. While it remained, it was yours to keep or release freely.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
No one asked you to give what was yours. While it remained, it was yours to keep or release freely. The trouble was never the possession but the division inside you, the part that wanted to appear generous while quietly holding back. This is the false self, always managing an image, always performing for others.
And here is what could not be seen from within that performance. The pretense was arranged for people, yet the presence you are pretending toward is the very awareness looking out through you. You cannot deceive that. To lie there is only to fall out of alignment with your own being.
Ego v. Being lens
Where today are you performing a generosity you have not really decided on?
The one who knows does not display. Show nothing, and there is nothing to maintain.
Do not act so that people will say you are good. Do the thing, and let the account of it go.
Say little and do much. The announcement is where the self creeps back in.
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Ego v. Being