Mark 5:4 · World English Bible
because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.
A mind possessed by its own guilt cannot be held by anything the world tries to bind it with. Every rule, every restraint, every effort from outside to master a torment that lives within is snapped like a thread, for the anguish is not in the body to be chained but in the belief the mind holds about itself.
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CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY
A mind possessed by its own guilt cannot be held by anything the world tries to bind it with. Every rule, every restraint, every effort from outside to master a torment that lives within is snapped like a thread, for the anguish is not in the body to be chained but in the belief the mind holds about itself.
This is why the ego's private hell seems unbreakable. The mind has made a prisoner of itself and then hands the keys to no one, and each shattered chain only proves that the cure was never going to come from restraint. What cannot be tamed from without waits for one thing, the recognition that it was never truly bound at all.
Fetters and chains: the restraints the world lays on a torment it cannot reach, every outer effort to master an inner anguish He whom no man could tame: the mind possessed by its own guilt, held by nothing outside because its prison is a belief within
Christian Psychology lens
What have I been trying to fix from the outside that only loosens from within?
The harm no enemy can do to you, your own untrained mind can do easily. The chain that holds is the one you forged yourself.
The hard and rigid breaks; the soft and yielding endures. Force applied to what lives inside only hardens it.
You sit in a cell with the door wide open, pulling at the bars. The lock was only ever your conviction that you belong inside.
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