Daniel 6:22 · World English Bible
My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.
A man is thrown among the beasts and is not torn apart, and the beasts are a fair picture of the raw, devouring forces that live in every one of us. He is not spared because he has crushed those powers but because he stands whole and undivided, at peace with himself and with the truth.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS
A man is thrown among the beasts and is not torn apart, and the beasts are a fair picture of the raw, devouring forces that live in every one of us. He is not spared because he has crushed those powers but because he stands whole and undivided, at peace with himself and with the truth.
When a person has nothing hidden and nothing at war inside him, the wildness that would ordinarily consume him has no hold to seize. What shuts the lions' mouths is that inner unity, an honesty so complete that even his own depths do him no harm.
Psychoanalysis lens
What would change today if you had nothing left to hide?
The one who is whole inside walks among weapons and wild animals and finds no place in himself for them to grip. Danger needs a handle, and he has left none.
The person settled in their own center is not shaken by the pull of desire or fear. The forces still move, but they move around someone who is no longer divided against himself.
What harms us is not the beast outside but our own inner confusion meeting it. A mind at peace with the truth gives trouble nothing to feed on.
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