Daniel 4:17 · World English Bible
‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’
The whole arrangement of power, its rise and its collapse, unfolds so that the living may come to know one thing: that no separate self is truly in charge. The ego builds its kingdom and calls itself king, and then the ground shifts and the crown is handed to another, often the least likely.
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EGO & BEING
The whole arrangement of power, its rise and its collapse, unfolds so that the living may come to know one thing: that no separate self is truly in charge. The ego builds its kingdom and calls itself king, and then the ground shifts and the crown is handed to another, often the least likely. Every empire the mind constructs is on loan.
Even the lowest being raised to a throne serves this teaching, for it shows that position is given, not seized, and can be given to anyone. When you see that the deeper intelligence, not your striving will, arranges the flow of events, the frantic grip of control loosens. You stop mistaking yourself for the ruler and begin to rest in the presence that was governing all along.
Ego v. Being lens
What am I gripping today that was never mine to hold?
Try to seize the world and shape it to your plan and it slips through your fingers. Things have their own motion, and force only tires the one applying it.
Some things are up to you and most are not. Peace is knowing which is which and stopping your demands on the rest.
Do your part fully and let go of the outcome. The fruit was never in your hands anyway.
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Ego v. Being