Matthew 24:37 · World English Bible
Matthew 24:37 Meaning As the Days of Noah Were
As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.
What does Matthew 24:37 mean?
The awakening of the divine self arrives in a person the way the flood came in the days of Noah, when consciousness was submerged in the waters of sense and only one purified nucleus stayed afloat. Noah, whose name opens as rest, is the still center that survives the deluge of feeling and appetite, and his days are the recurring inner condition when the lower flood rises and the higher must ride above it.
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The awakening of the divine self arrives in a person the way the flood came in the days of Noah, when consciousness was submerged in the waters of sense and only one purified nucleus stayed afloat. Noah, whose name opens as rest, is the still center that survives the deluge of feeling and appetite, and his days are the recurring inner condition when the lower flood rises and the higher must ride above it. The coming of the Son of man is not a date in the sky but this same crisis inside: the material tide swells, and the awakened principle emerges only where a person has kept an ark of stillness through the storm.
Days of Noe: the recurring inner state when the flood of sense and feeling rises and only a still center rides above it. Noe: rest, the quiet purified nucleus in a person that survives the deluge of the lower nature. Son of man: the awakened divine self whose emergence is the true coming within a person.
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Live Matthew 24:37 today
- When your feelings start climbing this morning, worry, craving, irritation, sit down for two minutes and let the wave go by without acting on it. You are not stopping the water, you are staying above it.
- In one conversation today, when someone's mood floods the room, keep your own voice at its normal level. Being the quiet one in the exchange is the whole practice.
- Next time your phone lights up with something that spikes you, a message, a number, a headline, put it face down and breathe three times before you answer. The surge passes faster than it claims it will.
What inside me is calm enough to stay afloat when my feelings are at their highest?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 15
The muddy water clears only if you let it stand still. The one who keeps an inner quiet while everything churns is the one left standing when the churning passes.
Bhagavad Gita 2
The senses pull at the mind like winds dragging a boat off course. Whoever holds steady at the center stays whole while the waters rise around them.
Zen
The wave and the water are not two things. Panic rides the surface, and the still depth under it was never once disturbed.
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