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John 7:29 · World English Bible

John 7:29 Meaning I Know Him

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.

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What does John 7:29 mean?

To say I am from him points to something you have forgotten: that you did not create yourself, that you arose out of a formless source and remain joined to it even now. He knows that source not as a distant object but intimately, because it is what he most deeply is.

From the Ego v. Being reading below.

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EGO & BEING

Ego v. Being

To say I am from him points to something you have forgotten: that you did not create yourself, that you arose out of a formless source and remain joined to it even now. He knows that source not as a distant object but intimately, because it is what he most deeply is.

You cannot know Being the way you know a fact or a face across the room. You know it only by being it, by growing quiet enough to feel the aliveness that is your own presence in this moment. That aliveness is where you came from, and to feel it directly is to know the source that sent you.

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Live John 7:29 today

  1. Stand still for thirty seconds and feel your hands without looking at them. That quiet hum of being alive is not something you earned or built.
  2. Sitting across from someone at dinner, feel that the same aliveness is looking back at you. Say less and be more present.
  3. When a day goes badly and you feel small, put your feet flat on the floor and feel that you still exist underneath the bad day. Nothing out there gave you that, and nothing out there can take it.

What in me was never made by anything I have done?

The same truth in other traditions

Upanishads

You are not separate from what made you. What you are looking for is the one looking.

Tao Te Ching 25

There is something formless and complete that was there before heaven and earth, and everything returns to it. You are not outside that.

Zen

You do not learn water by studying it from the bank. You know it by being in it.

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