John 15:23 · World English Bible

John 15:23 Meaning He Who Hates Me

He who hates me, hates my Father also.

What does John 15:23 mean?

The resistance is to Being, not to a man. Rejecting presence in one person is rejecting the Source appearing there.

From the Ego v. Being reading below.

The same verse, read by one tradition.

EGO & BEING

The resistance is to Being, not to a man.

Rejecting presence in one person is rejecting the Source appearing there. The hostility is aimed at Being itself, though nobody names it that way.

Ego v. Being lens

When someone's name comes up in your head today and your chest tightens, stay with the tightening for a breath instead of running the usual story about them. The hardness is yours, not theirs.
With one person you find grating, a coworker, a sibling, the slow cashier, look at them long enough to see a living person and not a problem. One steady second of real attention undoes a lot.
In a tense message thread, before you fire back, put the phone face down and feel your feet on the floor. Then answer the person, not the version of them your mind built.

Who am I keeping at a distance, and what might be alive in them that I have refused to see?

The same self dwells in every being, so whatever you turn against in another you are turning against in the one life you share.

The beloved wears a thousand faces. Slam the door on one face and you have slammed it on the one you were looking for.

To meet someone with contempt is to meet your own nature with contempt, since there was never a second nature standing outside you.

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