Luke 17:1 · World English Bible
Luke 17:1 Meaning He Said to the Disciples
He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!
What does Luke 17:1 mean?
In a mind that still believes in separation, occasions to take offense will keep arriving, for the world it made is built to seem to wound. This is simply what the dream does.
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In a mind that still believes in separation, occasions to take offense will keep arriving, for the world it made is built to seem to wound. This is simply what the dream does. Yet the sorrow falls not on the one who seems to cause the hurt but on the mind that chooses to be its channel, that takes up the offense and passes it along as attack.
The offense comes from outside only in appearance. The decision to make it real, to receive it and hand it on, is made within. A mind that will not carry the blow finds it had no power to wound at all.
Offences: the seeming injuries the world sends, the stones the dream throws that the mind may choose to catch or let fall.
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Live Luke 17:1 today
- When a message lands wrong and your chest tightens, put the phone face down for two minutes before you answer. The sting usually shrinks on its own, and whatever you would have sent in those two minutes is the part that keeps the hurt moving.
- With someone close, let one small jab go by without returning it. No sigh, no little correction, just let it fall on the floor and stay there.
- In a meeting where a comment cuts at you in front of other people, keep your voice at its ordinary level and answer only the actual question asked. You can be clear without passing the blow along.
What would today feel like if I let one thing go unanswered?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 63
Meet the sharp word with softness and it finds nothing to cut. The one who refuses to answer injury with injury ends the quarrel where it stands.
Buddhism · Dhammapada
The insult offered and not accepted returns to the one who offered it, like a gift no one receives. Hatred kept alive in the mind is the only wound that lasts.
Stoicism · Epictetus
Nothing that happens harms you; your judgment that it harmed you is the harm. Remove the opinion "I have been wronged" and the wrong itself is gone.
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