John 1:41 · World English Bible
John 1:41 Meaning He First Found His Own Brother
He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).
What does John 1:41 mean?
The Christ that is found is not a man met on a road. It is your own awareness, your sense of being alive, recognized at last as the power that shapes everything.
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The Christ that is found is not a man met on a road. It is your own awareness, your sense of being alive, recognized at last as the power that shapes everything. Simon means to hear, and he is found first because listening is where this begins. A person grows quiet enough to notice the I AM in himself and knows it as the anointed one. The word translated for the reader is the same discovery translated within, one meaning carried into plain sight.
Finding the Messias is finding your own imagination and knowing it as God. This search ends here. Every other thing you could find is made by it. The brother told first stands for the faculty of hearing waking to the news. Once a person feels that the awareness looking out of his eyes is the creative power itself, he has found the thing all seeking was for.
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Live John 1:41 today
- Once today, get quiet enough to hear yourself think. No podcast, no music, no feed. Just the plain sense of being alive, which is easy to walk past for years.
- Listen to one person all the way through without preparing your reply while they talk. Hearing is where everything starts, and most of us skip it.
- When the noise is loudest, the open-plan office, the rush hour, the kids at full volume, find the one still point that is doing the hearing. It does not get louder or quieter with the room.
When was the last time you were quiet enough to hear what is already in you?
The same truth in other traditions
Mandukya Upanishad
The awareness looking out of your eyes right now is not a small private thing. It is the whole, and recognizing that is the end of the search.
Zen
A student spent years hunting for his true nature, then heard a pebble strike bamboo and laughed. He had been carrying it the whole time, so near he could not see it.
Sufism · Bayazid
He said he spent thirty years looking for God and found at last that the seeker, the sought and the seeking were the same thing wearing three names.
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