John 18:4 Meaning Jesus Therefore

A mind at peace does not wait in dread for what fear will bring but walks toward it, already knowing that nothing approaching from the world can touch the innocence within. To go forward and ask what is sought is the gesture of a mind that has withdrawn its defenses, because it has understood there is nothing in it that can be harmed.

The question turns the encounter around. Those who come armed with guilt are met not by resistance but by a calm that offers itself freely, and in that offering the whole illusion of attacker and victim begins to dissolve, for one who cannot be threatened has already forgiven the threat.

The Lord here is your own consciousness, and it goes to meet whatever comes already knowing the end. Nothing arrives to surprise the awakened imagination, because the imagination is the cause of all it meets. It does not wait to be seized by circumstance; it steps forward and questions the very crowd that seems to arrest it. That is the mark of a person who has understood that he himself is the source of his conditions and no fact stands over him as a stranger.

The question put to the crowd is the question every state asks of you. Whom do you seek? Not the man before them, but what you accept yourself to be. You will find whatever you claim, because consciousness answers the claim you make. A person who seeks his old self meets the old life; one who has assumed the wish fulfilled meets that instead. What you settle on as yourself is what steps forward to be found.