Ezekiel 1:21 · World English Bible
When those went, these went. When those stood, these stood. When those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
The moving parts of your life rise and rest together, not because one commands the next, but because a single aliveness animates them all. The mind sees separate things acting on each other.
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EGO & BEING
The moving parts of your life rise and rest together, not because one commands the next, but because a single aliveness animates them all. The mind sees separate things acting on each other. Beneath the seeing there is one presence, and the many forms are only its motion.
The wheels do not decide to turn. They move because the spirit of the living creature is in them, the way your breath and your steps and your very awareness arise from something you did not invent. When you feel that one life moving as you, effort dissolves. You go when it goes and are still when it is still, carried by the aliveness that was always doing the moving.
Ego v. Being lens
What in my day is already moving fine without my gripping it?
The Tao does nothing, and nothing is left undone. Things grow and turn and settle by themselves, not because anyone pushes them, and the wise person moves the same way.
All action happens through the play of nature's forces, yet a person deluded by ego says, "I am the doer." Seeing clearly means seeing that the doing was never yours alone.
In spring the flowers open, in autumn the leaves fall. No one commands it. The same unforced aliveness is what is walking around wearing your name.
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Ego v. Being