Mark 13:5 · World English Bible
Mark 13:5 Meaning Jesus
Jesus, answering, began to tell them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.
What does Mark 13:5 mean?
The one deception worth guarding against is not out in the world but inside the mind, where fear forever offers itself as truth. Every voice that says separation is real, that danger is coming, that you are a body under threat, is the same old teacher in a new disguise.
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The one deception worth guarding against is not out in the world but inside the mind, where fear forever offers itself as truth. Every voice that says separation is real, that danger is coming, that you are a body under threat, is the same old teacher in a new disguise.
A mind that watches its own thoughts is not made anxious but made free, for it learns to tell the counsel of fear from the quiet certainty of love. Deception ends the moment the mind stops mistaking its own frightened invention for the way things are.
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Live Mark 13:5 today
- The next time a thought arrives sounding like plain fact, something like they are done with me or this is going to fall apart, write it down as a sentence and read it back. Seeing it as a sentence is already half the freedom.
- When someone tells you what another person really meant by something, hold it loosely instead of swallowing it whole. One retelling can rearrange a whole friendship.
- In the middle of a meeting or a tense call, when your chest tightens and your mind starts narrating disaster, name quietly to yourself that this is fear talking, not information.
Which of your fears have you never once stopped to question?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · Dhammapada
The mind untrained is its own worst enemy, and no outside foe can do what a thought believed without question will do.
Stoicism · Epictetus
We are not disturbed by what happens but by the account we give of it. Examine the account and the disturbance loses its footing.
Zen
The teachers warned students against mistaking the moon's reflection for the moon. The trouble is never the water, it is the certainty that the reflection is the thing itself.
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