Jeremiah 13:16 · World English Bible
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
A narrow window stays open while the light still holds. Honoring the present as it stands now, before dusk comes and the mountains go black under stumbling feet, is the whole of what is asked.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
A narrow window stays open while the light still holds. Honoring the present as it stands now, before dusk comes and the mountains go black under stumbling feet, is the whole of what is asked. The warning points less to a coming punishment than to a moment that will not stay open forever.
Many people spend a lifetime looking for light somewhere ahead, in the next achievement or the next arrival, while the light already here quietly fades. The mind keeps postponing, certain of more time. Then the dark settles in, and the very thing that was searched for turns to shadow. What could have been a simple waking in daylight becomes a long groping through the gross dark.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
There is a season when the inner light is still within reach, when a person can turn toward the deeper part of himself by his own choice. If he keeps putting it off, that moment passes. The darkness he would not face does not vanish. It rises from underneath and swallows the ground he thought was solid.
Then he looks for a way out and finds none, because the light he needed was the very one he ignored while it was offered. The task is to turn while turning is still a free act, and not something forced on him by collapse.
Ego v. Being lens
What good thing are you postponing until a day that may not come?
We act as though life were endless while it slips through our hands, spending the only thing we cannot replace as if more were coming. The whole of it is available right now, and we keep deferring it.
The cherry blossom is beautiful because it is already falling. Those who wait for a better moment to look up find the branches bare.
The teachers say to practice as though your hair were on fire, not out of panic but because this body and this day are the only ground you have. Tomorrow is a thought, and the light is on you now.
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