Luke 20:35 · World English Bible
Luke 20:35 Meaning But Those Who Are Considered Worthy
But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
What does Luke 20:35 mean?
To marry is to bind your sense of being to a condition, to fasten the words "I am" onto some state and call that fastening yourself. A poor man weds poverty; a fearful man weds his fear.
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To marry is to bind your sense of being to a condition, to fasten the words "I am" onto some state and call that fastening yourself. A poor man weds poverty; a fearful man weds his fear. He wakes inside the thing he joined himself to, and lives from it, and calls it his life. Awakening ends that.
The risen self still enters states, but no longer fuses to them. Each condition becomes a garment the inner being puts on and takes off at will, worn and set aside without being trapped inside the cloth. He wears wealth without becoming a rich man, wears sorrow without becoming a mourner. That is what it means to be past marriage. The awakened one is never again given away to a state, because he knows he is the one who does the wearing.
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Live Luke 20:35 today
- When you catch yourself saying a flat sentence about who you are, something like "I'm broke" or "I'm an anxious person," say it again in your head as a weather report instead. Money is tight this month. Fear is moving through right now. Same facts, and you are no longer wearing them as a name.
- In your next real conversation, let someone be more than the story you have filed them under. The friend who is always late, the coworker who is always difficult: talk to the person in front of you today, not the label, and see what they do with the room you just gave them.
- When pressure hits, a hard email or a meeting that goes sideways, take one breath and remember you are the one having the experience, not the experience. Handle it fully, then put it down when you walk out. Do not carry it home as your identity.
Which condition in your life have you quietly started answering to as your name?
The same truth in other traditions
Bhagavad Gita 2
The self puts on and lays aside bodies and conditions the way a person changes clothes. What wears the garment is never the garment.
Zen · Linji
The teaching is to be the host, not the guest. Moods and circumstances arrive like visitors at the door, and the one who greets them does not have to move out of the house.
Stoicism · Epictetus
You are an actor given a role, poor man or rich man, lame man or governor. Play it well, but do not confuse the costume with the one who was handed it.
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