Jeremiah 46:27 · World English Bible
But don’t you be afraid, Jacob my servant. Don’t be dismayed, Israel; for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.
The captivity you long to be freed from is not somewhere far away. It is the imprisonment of a mind lost in its own fears, dragged endlessly between a remembered past and an imagined future, never at rest in the only place life actually happens.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
The captivity you long to be freed from is not somewhere far away. It is the imprisonment of a mind lost in its own fears, dragged endlessly between a remembered past and an imagined future, never at rest in the only place life actually happens.
But you will return, and be at rest and at ease. This return is not a journey across any distance; it is a coming back to the present moment, which has been here all along. When you stop living in fearful thought and settle into the awareness of now, fear loses its grip, not because your circumstances changed, but because you are no longer living in the imagined future where fear survives.
Ego v. Being lens
What prison am I living in that exists only in my own thoughts?
The gate has always been open. You spent years turning a handle on a door that was never locked.
You do not need to travel to know. The far country you are seeking is reachable without taking a step.
Do not chase the past or long for the future. There is one moment that can actually be lived, and you are standing in it.
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Ego v. Being