Luke 1:14 · World English Bible
Luke 1:14 Meaning You Will Have Joy and Gladness
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.
What does Luke 1:14 mean?
When a single mind lets love bring forth what it once thought impossible, the joy of it does not stay private but reaches far beyond the one who received it. What is healed in one is healed for many, because minds are not the separate islands the ego insists they are.
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When a single mind lets love bring forth what it once thought impossible, the joy of it does not stay private but reaches far beyond the one who received it. What is healed in one is healed for many, because minds are not the separate islands the ego insists they are. The gladness given to one is the gladness of all, for there is finally only one mind waking.
This is why the birth of a loving thought is never a solitary event. The many who rejoice are not onlookers but sharers, joined to the same awakening. What love creates in one place it gives everywhere at once, and no one is left outside the joy.
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Live Luke 1:14 today
- When something good finally happens for you today, sit with it a minute before you do anything else, and let yourself feel that it is not only yours.
- Tell one person your good news in a way that gives it to them too, not as a report on your luck but as something you want them in on.
- When someone else's win lands in the group chat and your first feeling is a small flinch, stay there and type the congratulations anyway. The flinch is the part that thinks there is a limited supply.
Whose good news could I treat as mine today?
The same truth in other traditions
Mahayana Buddhism
The bodhisattva vow rests on the view that no one wakes up alone. Any clarity gained is held for the sake of all beings, because the line between my liberation and yours was imagined.
Upanishads
The self in you and the self in everyone else are not two selves. What is realized in one place is realized in the one awareness that everyone is already sharing.
Sufism · Rumi
Rumi writes of joy that cannot be contained in the one it visits. The cup overflows by nature, and the wine was never the cup's private property.
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