Exodus 20:4 · World English Bible
You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
The commandment reaches deeper than statues of wood or stone. Every fixed picture a person carries of himself is a graven image.
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The commandment reaches deeper than statues of wood or stone. Every fixed picture a person carries of himself is a graven image. When someone decides he is poor, or unloved, or the sort who always loses, he has carved a likeness and bowed to it. The image then governs his days. He calls the result fate.
The warning is about the imagination, which is the workshop where all forms begin. To hold a rigid picture of what is and cannot change is to worship a thing carved by yesterday. Life stays fluid until a person freezes it with an assumption. Nothing outside a man holds him where he stands. Only the still image he keeps repeating does that, and that image can be set down.
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Which picture of yourself are you still carrying only because you have carried it so long?
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. A fixed picture of a thing is never the living thing.
The name you can say is not the lasting name. Once you fix it, you are holding a shape, not what is actually moving.
There is no solid self to defend, only a river of moments mistaken for a stone.
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