“If you bring forth what is inside of you, what you bring forth will Save you. If you do not bring forth what is inside of you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” ~ Jesus (Gospel of Thomas 70)

 

There is sometimes confusion regarding this verse in relation to what it is that is truly is “inside you”.  Yes, there is a self-centered ego inside us to be sure, and yet that entity is not the one mentioned here — for even deeper than our primitive instinctual drive to survive (much deeper) is our Soul; that energetic, conscious essence that wants one thing and one thing only: for us to emerge as an active force for Love …

And the longer we wait to actualize this True Self, the more meaningless our lives become, the more self-focused we become, and the more suffering we experience as a result … And if we choose to cower in this manner long enough, the deep-seated discordance we feel as a result will no longer be able to co-exist with the Universal Flow of Oneness within and all around us – and we will indeed know a most painful destruction of that self – to be ultimately Born anew again & again & again thereafter — in every next opportunity to Love anyway.

 

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