John 7:28 · World English Bible
Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.
You may know my name, my history, the town I came from. That is the surface, the personality, the story the mind can hold.
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EGO & BEING
You may know my name, my history, the town I came from. That is the surface, the personality, the story the mind can hold. But it is not the source. The one who speaks does not arise from himself, from any separate little self. There is a deeper origin, present and real, and it moves through the form without being trapped in it.
When a life is lived from that origin rather than from the anxious "me" and its plans, something true speaks through it. Most cannot perceive this, because they know only the outer man and have never grown quiet enough to sense the aliveness underneath. You recognize the source not by learning more facts, but by becoming still enough to feel the same presence in yourself.
Ego v. Being lens
If I am not my story about me, what is speaking when I am most honest?
All things arise out of the Tao and are carried by it, though it claims nothing as its own. The life in you was not your invention.
The reed flute makes its music only because someone else is breathing through it. The sound is real, but it does not come from the reed.
The one who acts while knowing the true actor is not the small self acts freely and is not tangled by what they do.
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Ego v. Being