Luke 21:9 · World English Bible
Luke 21:9 Meaning When You Hear of Wars and Disturbances
When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.
What does Luke 21:9 mean?
Wars and commotions are the outer face of an inner conflict, the mind at odds with itself and seeing its quarrel spread across the world. Fear looks at the turmoil and calls it the end, because the ego has always taught that upheaval is proof of danger and that danger is real.
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Wars and commotions are the outer face of an inner conflict, the mind at odds with itself and seeing its quarrel spread across the world. Fear looks at the turmoil and calls it the end, because the ego has always taught that upheaval is proof of danger and that danger is real. Yet a mind can hear the same noise and refuse to be terrified, knowing that the storm belongs to a dream and not to what it truly is.
These things must pass through the mind before it learns they have no power to harm it. What seems like the end is only fear playing out its story to its conclusion, and the quiet that waits beyond it was never in danger at all.
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Live Luke 21:9 today
- Pick one time today to read the news instead of letting it find you all day. Read it, set the phone down, and let your body come back to the room you are actually in.
- When someone brings you their panic, stay steady instead of matching it. Ask what is actually in front of them right now, and keep your voice level while they find out.
- In the middle of a conflict at work or at home, feel your feet on the floor before you speak. The noise is real, and it still has no power over what you are.
What am I calling the end that is really just loud?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 16
Things rise and churn and settle again. The one who stays rooted in stillness watches the upheaval without being carried off by it.
Stoicism · Epictetus
It is not events that disturb us but our opinions about them. The storm is outside; the terror is a judgment we add.
Buddhism · the second arrow
The first arrow is what happened. The second is the panic we fire into ourselves about it, and only the second one is optional.
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