Deuteronomy 30:10 · World English Bible
if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
The command sounds like a weight, yet its center is not the rules but the turning of the whole self toward the One who gave them. A divided heart keeps a little back and calls it caution, and obedience quietly becomes a show for watching eyes.
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The command sounds like a weight, yet its center is not the rules but the turning of the whole self toward the One who gave them. A divided heart keeps a little back and calls it caution, and obedience quietly becomes a show for watching eyes.
The honest work is to bring all of it, heart and soul, with nothing saved to admire in private. And the voice being obeyed is no distant master shouting orders. It is the light already in the window the moment the shutter opens.
Sufism lens
What am I holding back in reserve, and who exactly am I saving it for?
What you are looking for is seated in the heart, closer than anything you could travel toward. It was never far enough away to need a journey.
God is near you, with you, inside you. There is no need to raise your voice as if calling across a distance.
In his Song of Zazen he says we are like someone standing in water, crying out from thirst. The nearness was there the whole time and went unused.
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