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Genesis 30:32 · World English Bible

Genesis 30:32 Meaning I Will Pass Through All Your Flock

I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.

What does Genesis 30:32 mean?

Jacob is the inner self that overturns the given facts by the power of imagining. He is the supplanter, the one who quietly takes the place of what already seems settled.

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Jacob is the inner self that overturns the given facts by the power of imagining. He is the supplanter, the one who quietly takes the place of what already seems settled. The speckled and spotted cattle are the outcome he wants, singled out and claimed as his own before it exists in the field. He does not wrestle the flock into a new shape. He fixes his attention on the marked animals and holds them steadily in his mind's eye.

A person becomes what he persistently beholds. The desired end held within and felt as already yours hardens into outer fact. It came to pass just so with Jacob, whose striped young answered the marked rods he set before the flocks. Right thinking is nothing more than this, the felt certainty of already possessing what was asked. Whatever a person dwells on inwardly is what he eventually owns.

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Live Genesis 30:32 today

  1. Pick the one outcome you actually want and give it a clear picture, then come back to that same picture through the day instead of inventing a new one each time. Same image, again and again.
  2. Choose one person you keep seeing at their worst and start holding a picture of them at their best. Say nothing to them about it and watch how your tone with them shifts on its own.
  3. When bad news lands and your mind starts running the worst reel, stop the reel and put your own picture back up. You are not denying the news, you are refusing to make it the thing you stare at.

What picture am I staring at most often, and is it the one I want to live inside?

The same truth in other traditions

Dhammapada 1

All that we are arises from what we have thought, and the mind that keeps returning to an image is shaped by it the way a wheel follows the ox.

Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius

Marcus wrote that the soul takes on the color of its thoughts, so a life is dyed by whatever a person dwells on day after day.

Hinduism · Upanishads

A person is what his deep desire is, for as his desire goes, so goes his will, and as his will goes, so go his deeds and his life.

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