Leviticus 22:3 · World English Bible
Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to Yahweh, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am Yahweh.
A person can stand in the holiest place and still be shut out from it, not by any locked door, but by what he carries in. The old resentments, the running commentary in the head, the sense of a wounded self that must be defended: this is the uncleanness upon him.
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EGO & BEING
A person can stand in the holiest place and still be shut out from it, not by any locked door, but by what he carries in. The old resentments, the running commentary in the head, the sense of a wounded self that must be defended: this is the uncleanness upon him. It travels with him wherever he goes, and it screens him from the one thing the sacred offers, which is the living stillness of this moment.
Being cut off from presence is never a punishment sent from outside. The mind, crowded and clinging, simply cannot receive what is already here. When a person finally lays the weight down, presence returns on its own. It had not left. It was hidden behind the noise he mistook for himself.
Ego v. Being lens
What am I carrying in that is keeping me out of the room I am standing in?
A teacher poured tea until the cup overflowed, then said: you are like this cup, full of your own opinions. How can I show you anything until you empty it?
People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them. Carry the view with you and you carry the disturbance.
A man rowing an empty boat angers no one he bumps into. Empty your own boat and the collisions stop being quarrels.
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Ego v. Being