Ephesians 4:18 · World English Bible
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.
When the mind is darkened, it is not that a light was taken from you. It is that you have become so identified with your thinking that you no longer feel the living presence beneath it.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
When the mind is darkened, it is not that a light was taken from you. It is that you have become so identified with your thinking that you no longer feel the living presence beneath it. This is what that old word ignorance truly means, not a lack of facts but a forgetting of who you are.
Cut off this way, you feel alienated and alone in a hostile world. Yet nothing has severed you from life. The heart has only grown hard around its own thoughts. The moment awareness returns and that hardness softens, the sense of separation ends, because you were never truly cut off; you had only lost yourself in thought.
Ego v. Being lens
Where have I let my heart go hard, and what small warmth could I allow back in today?
What keeps us from the truth is not distance but forgetting. The teaching calls it avidya, a kind of not seeing, where you look straight at yourself and miss it.
Return to the root and stillness comes back on its own. Nothing was lost while you were away. You simply stopped being there.
It is often said we are like someone riding an ox while searching everywhere for the ox. The looking itself keeps the thing we want hidden.
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Ego v. Being