Matthew 26:45 · World English Bible
Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
There is a sleep deeper than the body's, the slumber of a life lived entirely in the dream of thought. You can move and speak and plan and still be utterly asleep to the aliveness of this moment.
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EGO & BEING
There is a sleep deeper than the body's, the slumber of a life lived entirely in the dream of thought. You can move and speak and plan and still be utterly asleep to the aliveness of this moment. Sleep on, then, if you must, but understand what such sleep costs you.
The hour is always at hand. The fullness of life, the presence in which everything real happens, is here now, offering itself while the mind dozes in its stories of past and future. To awaken is simply to become conscious in this moment instead of dreaming through it, and each moment you sleep is a moment of your one life quietly handed away.
Ego v. Being lens
How much of today did you actually show up for?
One old line asks where you are going to look for your life, when it is happening right here. The search itself is the sleep.
The teaching says to do today's work today, because no one is promised tomorrow. The hour you have is the only one offered.
Seneca wrote that most people are not short of time, they are careless with it, spending life on everything except living it. We lose it in small pieces without seeing them go.
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Ego v. Being