Luke 20:34 · World English Bible
Luke 20:34 Meaning Jesus Said to Them
Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.
What does Luke 20:34 mean?
The children of this world are those who take the outer facts as final and live entirely by them. To marry, in this saying, is to bind oneself to appearances, to wed the mind to what the senses report and reproduce more of the same.
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The children of this world are those who take the outer facts as final and live entirely by them. To marry, in this saying, is to bind oneself to appearances, to wed the mind to what the senses report and reproduce more of the same. Such a person accepts the given conditions as the whole story and spends his life multiplying them.
The married mind is the mind fused to circumstance, generating its future from the present as it stands. It cannot conceive a state unlike the one before it, because it has joined itself to the visible and asks nothing beyond it. A man tied to the facts of this world can only breed the facts of this world. Whoever lives wholly by appearances marries them, and the offspring of that union is always more of what already is.
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Live Luke 20:34 today
- Before you fall into the feed tonight, give yourself five minutes picturing something that isn't in your life yet. Not planning it, just being in it.
- When a friend starts a sentence with it's always going to be like this, don't nod along. Say one honest sentence about what else it could look like.
- At work, when the only options on the table are the two obvious ones, hold off agreeing for a beat and ask what nobody has said out loud yet.
What have you accepted as permanent just because it has lasted a while?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · Dhammapada
Clinging to how things appear, we keep reproducing the life that appearance describes. Craving the given world is how the same world comes around again.
Taoism · Tao Te Ching 1
What can be named and pointed at is not the whole of it. Live only by the named and you never meet the part that makes new things possible.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
You are colored by whatever you dwell on. Dwell only on what is in front of you, and you will never imagine anything else.
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