Exodus 23:21 · World English Bible
Exodus 23:21 Meaning Pay Attention to Him
Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
What does Exodus 23:21 mean?
The Angel sent ahead is the inner light that goes before a person, and to obey its voice is to follow that light in meditation. The saying that the name is in him means the way is in him, for the name is never a literal name but the way itself, the place of meditation and spiritual consciousness.
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The Angel sent ahead is the inner light that goes before a person, and to obey its voice is to follow that light in meditation. The saying that the name is in him means the way is in him, for the name is never a literal name but the way itself, the place of meditation and spiritual consciousness. Following that light is not obedience to an outer master; meditation of itself shifts a person's polarization and draws them into union with God, carrying them into the prepared place now rather than in some far country or future.
When a person turns inward and follows the light steadily, the change happens on its own, and the place that was promised is entered in the present.
Angel: the inner light sent ahead of a person to lead the way. Name: the way itself, the place of meditation and spiritual consciousness, never a literal name.
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Live Exodus 23:21 today
- Sit for five minutes today with your phone face down in another room. You are not trying to get anywhere, you are letting the water go still, and that is the whole thing.
- In one conversation today, stay quiet a beat longer than feels comfortable and keep listening. The other person usually says the real thing in the space you did not fill.
- When the day gets loud, take three slow breaths before you reply to anything. Not to calm down for someone else's sake, just to come back to the version of you that can see.
What changes in me when I stop trying to make the change happen?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
Stop stirring the water and it clears by itself. You do not make the clearing happen, you stop interrupting it.
Zen
Sit still and the dust settles. Nothing is added and nothing is achieved, and what was always there becomes visible.
Sufism · Rumi
Turn toward the one you long for and the turning itself begins the change. The arrival is not later and elsewhere, it is in the facing.
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