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Exodus 24:16 · World English Bible

Exodus 24:16 Meaning Yahweh’s Glory Settled on Mount Sinai

Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.

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What does Exodus 24:16 mean?

There is a mountain in you that does not move, and upon it a presence abides that the thinking mind cannot grasp. For six days the cloud covers it, and this covering is not an obstacle.

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EGO & BEING

Ego v. Being

There is a mountain in you that does not move, and upon it a presence abides that the thinking mind cannot grasp. For six days the cloud covers it, and this covering is not an obstacle. The not-knowing, the stillness in which thought finds nothing to seize, is itself the doorway.

When you stop demanding to understand at once and simply remain, awareness gathers. On the seventh day the voice comes from the midst of the cloud, which means the deeper intelligence speaks to you only after the restless mind has grown quiet enough to listen.

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Live Exodus 24:16 today

  1. When a question is chewing at you today, give it one honest hour of not solving it. No search bar, no asking anyone. Just carry it and let it sit unanswered.
  2. In a conversation where you usually jump in with the answer, wait three seconds longer than feels comfortable. What comes out after that pause is usually better than what you were about to say.
  3. Before a meeting or a hard call, take sixty seconds where you stop rehearsing lines in your head. Walk in a little emptier and let the first words find you.

What am I rushing to understand that might only open if I stop pushing on it?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 1

The way that can be named is not the lasting way. What can be said about it is already a step away from it.

Zen

A teacher poured tea into a full cup until it ran over the table. Your mind is this cup, he said. Empty it, and then we can begin.

Hinduism · Yoga Sutras

Yoga is the stilling of the movements of the mind. When they settle, what sees stands revealed as it is.

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