Genesis 27:46 · World English Bible
Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”
The spirit rising in a person cannot bind itself to the emotions and keep its light. That is the weariness sounding here through the mother, the soul's own longing: the developing self is warned against wedding the fearful, reactive feelings that belong to the land, to the flesh's own ground.
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The spirit rising in a person cannot bind itself to the emotions and keep its light. That is the weariness sounding here through the mother, the soul's own longing: the developing self is warned against wedding the fearful, reactive feelings that belong to the land, to the flesh's own ground. To take a wife of Heth is to let the awakening spirit intermarry with dread and the churning moods, and once it does, the whole aim of the inner life comes to nothing.
What rises must stay unmixed. The spirit joined to fear is dragged back down into the body's alarms and loses the very thing that made it spirit. So the warning is simply this: the part of a person that is climbing toward the light must not fall in love with its own fears.
Daughters of Heth: the emotions and fear, the reactive moods of the flesh that the awakening spirit must not marry Daughters of the land: the feelings born of the body's own ground, the terror and craving native to earthbound life
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Which fear have I been treating like a partner instead of like weather passing through?
Fear and craving pull a steady mind off its base the way wind takes a boat. Keep the awakening part of you unattached to those moods and it stays clear, let it marry them and it is tossed.
You are not disturbed by events but by your own alarmed judgments about them. Stop wedding yourself to the panic and the event turns out to be smaller than the feeling it caused.
Feelings arise, crest, and pass like weather. Watch them come and go without taking them as a bride, and they lose the power to run your life.
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