Judges 15:19 · World English Bible
But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
After great effort there comes a moment when you feel utterly emptied, when the striving mind has nothing left to give. Yet in that very depletion something can open.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
The same verse, read by 2 traditions.
EGO & BEING
After great effort there comes a moment when you feel utterly emptied, when the striving mind has nothing left to give. Yet in that very depletion something can open. A hidden source you had walked past unnoticed releases its water, and life returns.
When his spirit came again and he revived, it was not from pushing harder. He stopped, drank from a source that was already there, and came back to life the moment he ceased straining and simply received what was given.
SUFISM
The strong man has just won and is dying of thirst, and that is the trap of victory: the self swells until it forgets it was never its own source of strength. Only the cry that admits emptiness saves him, and the moment he stops boasting and asks, the ground opens.
The water was hidden in that hollow, waiting for the hard place to break. So the giver and the gift meet in a split rock, and the well keeps his cry for its name, because the one who called and the One who answered belong together there.
Ego v. Being lens
Where today were you straining for something that was already being handed to you?
The way works by taking away, not adding. Keep subtracting until the doing happens without strain.
After the long effort comes the moment of letting go, and what you were pushing toward arrives on its own. The rest was never produced by force.
The skilled swimmer stops fighting the current and lets it carry him through. He does not win against the river; he stops wrestling it.
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