John 15:19 · World English Bible
John 15:19 Meaning If You Were of the World
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
What does John 15:19 mean?
The mind that still believes in separation feels at home in the world it made and is soothed by it, for the world loves whatever agrees that fear is real. But a mind that has been drawn out of that belief no longer speaks the world's language, and so the world can no longer flatter it into staying asleep.
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John 15:19 through 2 lenses
The same verse, read by 2 traditions.
Christian Psychology
Ego v. Being
CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
Christian Psychology
The mind that still believes in separation feels at home in the world it made and is soothed by it, for the world loves whatever agrees that fear is real. But a mind that has been drawn out of that belief no longer speaks the world's language, and so the world can no longer flatter it into staying asleep.
What feels like rejection is simply the loss of the ego's approval, and that loss is freedom, not exile. To be chosen out of the world is to be released from needing its comfort, and a mind no longer bribed by illusion is a mind that has begun to wake.
World: the whole system of thought built on separation, which welcomes what confirms fear and turns from what would end it
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EGO & BEING
Ego v. Being
Ego rewards those who confirm it.
Belonging to the collective ego is comfortable because it is mutual reinforcement. Stepping out removes you from that agreement.
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Christian Psychology lens
Live John 15:19 today
- Go one day without checking whether your post, your message, or your work got a reaction. What stays steady when nobody claps is actually yours.
- When a conversation turns to running someone down, do not join and do not lecture. Change the subject gently and let the pause sit.
- In the room where everyone is anxious about the deadline, do not catch it. You can take the work seriously without taking on the panic, and that gives everybody else somewhere calm to stand.
Whose approval am I still arranging my life around?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
Others are bright and sure of themselves while the one on the way seems dull and adrift. He has stopped running on what the crowd feeds on, and that is not a loss.
Buddhism · the raft
Once you are across the river, you do not carry the raft on your head out of gratitude. What got you comfortable is not what you need now.
Sufism · Rabia
She asked to be free of both the fear of punishment and the hope of reward. Wanting neither, she had nothing left to be bought with.
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