Luke 9:11 · World English Bible
Luke 9:11 Meaning But the Multitudes
But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing.
What does Luke 9:11 mean?
A mind that had withdrawn to be alone is followed by the very need it sought to rest from, and it turns and receives that need without resentment. This is the pattern of love: it does not send away what comes to it, but welcomes it and gives what is asked.
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Ego v. Being
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A mind that had withdrawn to be alone is followed by the very need it sought to rest from, and it turns and receives that need without resentment. This is the pattern of love: it does not send away what comes to it, but welcomes it and gives what is asked. There is no reluctance in it and no keeping of accounts.
What the people are given is first the truth of the kingdom and then their healing, in that order, for the healing follows from the teaching. To be told what one truly is begins the cure, and those who had need of healing are simply the minds ready to hear it and let the belief in their sickness go.
People: the crowd of thoughts that turn toward love once they recognize it, the minds seeking what they cannot name.
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EGO & BEING
Ego v. Being
He received them. There is something profound in that simple act, receiving whoever came, exactly as they were, without resistance. This is the essence of presence: to meet what stands in front of you fully, without the mind rushing to judge or turn away.
From that open reception everything else flowed, the pointing toward the kingdom within and the healing of those who needed it. When a person feels truly received, truly met by another's undivided presence, a healing has already begun before a word is spoken. Acceptance is not passive. To receive this moment, and whoever stands before you, completely, is the ground on which every real change becomes possible.
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Live Luke 9:11 today
- If you sit down for a quiet half hour and the phone starts going off, try meeting the first interruption without the flinch. You can still choose not to answer, but let the choice be calm instead of annoyed.
- When someone comes to you with a need you did not ask for, a family member in the doorway, a friend texting late, give them the whole of your attention for a few minutes before you look at the clock.
- In a meeting or a hard conversation, lead with what is actually true about the person in front of you rather than with the fix. People usually settle before anything gets solved.
What would change if the thing that interrupted me today was the thing I was actually here for?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
Water does not refuse the low places that come to it, and that is why it nourishes everything. Strength that never turns anything away is the strength that lasts.
Buddhism
The vow of compassion is not to help when it suits you but to meet whatever walks through the door, without sorting it into welcome and unwelcome.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
The obstacle that interrupts your plan becomes the work itself. What arrives is not a theft of your time, it is your time.
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