Deuteronomy 5:24 · World English Bible
and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.
There are moments when the ordinary surface of life falls away and something vast shows itself through the crackling immediacy of the present. People call it fire, or glory, and they are astonished to survive the encounter, as if such nearness to the source of being should undo them.
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EGO & BEING
There are moments when the ordinary surface of life falls away and something vast shows itself through the crackling immediacy of the present. People call it fire, or glory, and they are astonished to survive the encounter, as if such nearness to the source of being should undo them.
But you do not perish in that meeting. The self that fears dissolving is only a mental construction, and what remains when it grows quiet is more alive, not less. To stand in that presence and still be living is simply to discover that your real life was never the anxious story in your head.
Ego v. Being lens
What have you survived that you were sure would end you?
The one who sees the vast self is not destroyed by it but freed, because what feared dissolving was never the real one.
The great death and then the great life. What ends is the small self, and what is left turns out to be more awake, not less.
I died as mineral and became plant, died as plant and rose to animal. Every dissolving has been a promotion.
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Ego v. Being