John 20:26 · World English Bible
After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
The doors were shut, and still he came and stood among them. There is something essential here.
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EGO & BEING
The doors were shut, and still he came and stood among them. There is something essential here. Presence is not kept out by the barriers a frightened mind builds around itself. Even when you have closed yourself off in doubt, as Thomas had, the deeper reality can rise in the very midst of you, at the still center those walls can never reach.
And what he brings is always the same. Peace. Not a peace that waits for all your questions to be answered or all danger to pass, for the doors were still locked and the fear still fresh. It is the peace that is your own essence, uncovered the moment you become present. It was there behind the closed door the whole time, waiting only to be noticed.
Ego v. Being lens
Where in me is the peace still sitting, behind a door I have kept shut?
The root of stillness is not somewhere you travel to. Stop stirring the water and you find it has been clear underneath the whole time.
The mind that is not pulled by outer things keeps its own calm, no matter how bolted the door. Nothing outside you can enter the place where your judgments are made.
Clouds cover the sun without touching it. Doubt and fear pass through awareness and leave it exactly as it was.
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