Matthew 13:52 · World English Bible
He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”
One who has truly awakened to the depth within holds a strange kind of wealth. From it come things ancient and things utterly fresh, and the two do not contradict.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
One who has truly awakened to the depth within holds a strange kind of wealth. From it come things ancient and things utterly fresh, and the two do not contradict. The old is the timeless truth known in every age; the new is how it lives in this exact moment, never before and never again.
The mind clings to one or the other, either worshipping tradition or chasing novelty. But presence draws on both without effort, because it stands outside of time even while acting within it. When you live from that inner treasure rather than from memory or expectation, you can honor what is enduring and still respond completely fresh to what is in front of you now.
Ego v. Being lens
What old thing you know by heart could you meet freshly today, as if for the first time?
Hold to the ancient way in order to meet what exists right now. Knowing the old beginning is what lets you move well in the present.
Do not follow in the footsteps of the old masters. Seek what they sought. The living search is the tradition, not the trail of footprints.
Make the old teaching your own and turn it over again, for everything is in it. What is handed down becomes new in the hands that turn it.
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Ego v. Being