Mark 3:23 · World English Bible
Mark 3:23 Meaning He Summoned Them
He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
What does Mark 3:23 mean?
Fear cannot be used to end fear, for anything born of the belief in separation only deepens it. This is the quiet undoing of every attempt to fight darkness with darkness, to overcome attack with attack, to buy peace with a little more control.
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Fear cannot be used to end fear, for anything born of the belief in separation only deepens it. This is the quiet undoing of every attempt to fight darkness with darkness, to overcome attack with attack, to buy peace with a little more control. What springs from the ego serves the ego, and cannot release the mind from the very thing it is.
Only a different teacher can undo what fear has made. The correction never comes from within the dream's own logic; it comes from the love the dream was built to hide, which alone owes nothing to separation.
Satan: the belief in separation, the single thought of fear that cannot cast out itself
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Live Mark 3:23 today
- When you are anxious and your fix is to check, refresh, reread the message one more time, see that the checking is the anxiety, not the cure. Put the phone down and let the question stay open.
- In an argument where you want the sharper line, let the sharpness go and say the plain thing instead. Winning the exchange has never once ended the fight.
- Under pressure at work, when the instinct is to grip tighter, control more, send one more message, try loosening one grip instead. The pressure is not asking for more of what made it.
What am I trying to fix with more of the very thing that is causing it?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
Force brings counterforce, and the one who conquers by violence plants the next war. Nothing is truly ended by the thing that caused it.
Buddhism · Dhammapada
Hate is never ended by hate, only by its absence. This is a law, not a hope.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
The best answer to someone else's anger is not to catch it. Matching them only makes two of the problem.
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