Luke 11:17 Meaning But He

A mind at war with itself cannot stand, and this is the whole condition of the ego. It is built on the belief in separation, and separation sets one part of the mind against another, so that it is forever attacking what it also depends upon. Such a house cannot hold, because its very foundation is the wish to be divided, and division is another word for collapse.

Healing is not the winning of the inner war but the ending of it. When the mind stops taking sides against itself and remembers it is one, the desolation lifts, for there was never a real enemy within, only the belief in two. What falls is not the mind but the illusion that it could ever truly be split.

Kingdom: the mind as a whole, which stands when it is undivided and crumbles when it turns against itself. House: the individual mind, sound only in its wholeness, falling apart the moment it believes it is set against itself.

A person is a kind of household with many members: the will, the instincts, the ideals, the parts kept hidden out of shame. When these are set against each other, when the daylight self declares war on everything in itself it dislikes, the whole structure begins to weaken from inside.

This is what a breakdown often is. So much energy goes into holding one half of the personality down that little is left for living, and the person grows empty and stalled. A house does not fall because an enemy breaks in; it falls because its own members stop pulling together. Strength returns only when the warring parts inside a person are reconciled, so that the whole household can stand and act as one.