Matthew 20:23 · World English Bible
He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”
Yes, you will drink the cup. The suffering that transforms comes to everyone who walks this way, and it will do its work in you.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
Yes, you will drink the cup. The suffering that transforms comes to everyone who walks this way, and it will do its work in you. But the place of honor you imagine is not something one person hands to another, and it is not won by wanting it more strongly than the next.
Such a place is prepared by the source of life itself, and given to those who have been made ready, which means emptied of the very self that grasps for position. As long as you are still reaching for it, you are not yet the one for whom it is prepared. Only when that grasping self dissolves does the honor arrive, given freely because no ego remains to claim it.
Ego v. Being lens
What would you still do if you knew for certain no one would ever know it was you?
The sage acts without laying claim, and the work stands. Grasping for credit is what makes the achievement small.
Act because the act is right, not for what it earns you. Let go of the fruit and the work becomes clean.
You play the part you are given, well or badly, and the casting is not yours. Wanting a bigger role is the one thing guaranteed to ruin the one you have.
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Ego v. Being