Mark 13:7 · World English Bible
Mark 13:7 Meaning When You Hear of Wars and Rumors
When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don’t be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.
What does Mark 13:7 mean?
Conflict heard from outside is the mind's own division made loud, and rumor is the fear that runs ahead of any event to make it terrible before it comes. A mind that has chosen separation will always find its choice echoed back as clashing forces, for what is split within cannot look upon a whole and peaceful world.
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Conflict heard from outside is the mind's own division made loud, and rumor is the fear that runs ahead of any event to make it terrible before it comes. A mind that has chosen separation will always find its choice echoed back as clashing forces, for what is split within cannot look upon a whole and peaceful world. To be untroubled is not to deny the noise but to know its source lies nowhere but in a wish to be at odds.
The end that has not come is the quiet certainty that no dream of battle is final. What must run its course is only the belief that fear can stand, and it stands until the mind that made it lays it down.
Wars: the mind's inner split thrown outward, the belief in separation seen as forces that clash Rumours: the fear that runs ahead of any event, dread that makes a thing terrible before it arrives
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Live Mark 13:7 today
- Catch yourself at midnight scrolling news that you can do nothing about tonight, and put the phone down. Dread is not preparation.
- When a group chat spirals into what if and did you hear, be the one who does not add a layer. You do not have to argue, just stop feeding it.
- In traffic, in the slow grocery line, when your body braces as if something is being taken from you, let your shoulders drop and breathe out. The clock will not move faster for your clenching.
How much of your current distress is about something that has not happened?
The same truth in other traditions
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
Most of what torments us lives in our anticipation of it. Remove the opinion that this is unbearable and the unbearable part goes with it.
Tao Te Ching
Muddy water clears when it is left alone. The one who can stay still while things churn is not suppressing anything, only declining to stir.
Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita
The one who is steady does not swing between elation and dread as events arrive. That steadiness is not coldness, it is the only ground from which you can act well.
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