Acts 9:2 · World English Bible
Acts 9:2 Meaning And Asked for Letters From Him
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
What does Acts 9:2 mean?
The restless outward activity of the mind sets out to hunt down the inner way and drag it back up under the rule of the higher self, and this hunter is the very faculty that spirit is about to convert. Damascus is activity, the busy left-brain motion that persecutes before it is turned.
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The restless outward activity of the mind sets out to hunt down the inner way and drag it back up under the rule of the higher self, and this hunter is the very faculty that spirit is about to convert. Damascus is activity, the busy left-brain motion that persecutes before it is turned. This way is the narrow inward path of meditation that few ever find, the men and women within a person its scattered thoughts and feelings. The seeker means to bind them and haul them to Jerusalem, which is your own higher consciousness, the holy state and the seat of the pineal. Even the persecuting energy is aimed, unknowing, at the crown, and on that road the hunter of the inner way is itself remade.
The driving, hunting activity of the mind is being led, against its own intent, toward the higher consciousness where it will be transformed.
Damascus: activity, the busy outward-driving motion of the left-brain mind before it is converted Jerusalem: your own higher consciousness, the holy inner state and the seat of the pineal This way: the narrow inward path of meditation that few ever discover
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Live Acts 9:2 today
- Next time you catch yourself scrolling fast, hunting for something you cannot name, stop and sit still for one minute without reaching for anything. The hunger that was driving your thumb is the same hunger that wants the quiet.
- When you feel the urge to correct someone in a group chat, pause before you type and ask what in you is so restless. Then answer the actual person instead of the point you wanted to win.
- In a meeting or in traffic where your mind is racing and pushing, let your shoulders drop and feel your breath for three breaths. You do not have to kill the drive, just turn its nose a few degrees inward.
Where is your restlessness actually trying to take you?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen · the ox-herding pictures
The one who sets out to capture the ox discovers, somewhere on the road, that the ox was never separate from him. The chase itself is what wears the chaser down into stillness.
Rumi
What you are hunting for is also hunting you. The restless search is the beloved's own pull, felt from the wrong end.
Bhagavad Gita 6
The same mind that drags a person around is the only instrument that can carry them home. Trained, it is the best friend; untrained, the hardest enemy. Either way, there is nothing else to work with.
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