Matthew 11:27 · World English Bible
All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
Nothing reaches a man except through his own I am, and the one who gives and the one given to turn out to be the same. The Father hands all things to the Son because Father and Son are awareness and the self that awareness wears, and the two cannot be pulled apart.
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MANIFESTATION
Nothing reaches a man except through his own I am, and the one who gives and the one given to turn out to be the same. The Father hands all things to the Son because Father and Son are awareness and the self that awareness wears, and the two cannot be pulled apart. The Father is not known from outside. Such knowing is an inner event, never a piece of news carried in from elsewhere.
The Son who alone can reveal the Father is David. When David is brought forth out of a man and calls him Father, the man discovers he is God the Father, and not one moment before. This mutual knowing has to be lived; being told it changes nothing. The revealing is the son within turning and pointing home.
SUFISM
A stream and its spring are one water, and the stream carries the spring wherever it runs. So the Father is known through the Son and the Son through the Father, not two secrets but one. What misses this is the appetite to master God by thinking, to file Him away as a thing owned.
The cure is to set down the grasping and become someone worth confiding in, honest and low and quiet. This knowing arrives as a gift, not a wage, and God is already leaning toward the beloved heart.
Manifestation lens
Who exactly have I been waiting on to give me what I am already holding?
The teaching says you are that. The one who knows and what is known are the same, and no messenger can hand that over because there is nowhere outside yourself for it to come from.
A monk asked where to find the Buddha and was told, the one asking. Every search sent outward turns at the end and points back at the searcher.
I searched the temples and found him at last in my own heart. The seeking and the finding happened in one place, and the journey was only the long way around to arriving where you stood.
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