Mark 10:30 · World English Bible
but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
A mind that lays down what it clutched as its own does not lose, though it fears loss above all things. What it releases returns to it enlarged, because everything it once fenced off as private now belongs to it in the shared mind where nothing is owned and therefore nothing can be taken away.
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CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
A mind that lays down what it clutched as its own does not lose, though it fears loss above all things. What it releases returns to it enlarged, because everything it once fenced off as private now belongs to it in the shared mind where nothing is owned and therefore nothing can be taken away. The persecutions come too, for the ego does not surrender its accounting quietly, and the old belief in scarcity still throws its shadow.
Yet these attacks change nothing real. They are the last protests of a teacher being set down, and beyond them lies a life the world can neither give nor threaten, whole because it was never made of things that break.
Houses: the private shelters the mind builds to keep itself apart, given back as a home that cannot be lost Brethren and sisters and mothers and children: the relationships the mind held as its own, restored in the one mind where love is not divided or possessed Lands: the territory the ego claims and defends, returned as the shared ground that belongs to everyone at once
Christian Psychology lens
What do I protect as mine that might be bigger if I stopped fencing it in?
The wise give and have more because of it. The more they hand to others, the more there turns out to be.
Generosity is practiced first for what it does to the giver. The grip loosens, and the fear of not having enough loosens with it.
No one who shares what they have is poorer for it. What you share is the only part you truly keep.
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