Finding of the Day - What will it benefit?

... a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life?

Or what will a man give in exchange for his life? 

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)

or

For what does a person benefit if he gains the whole world and lacks his soul?

Or what will a person give to regain his soul?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)

Both found and selected on Online Parallel Bible. A great source (and the only one I know online to this standard) if you want to look at the the different possibilites of inter-pretation of a same source. Especially if you are a searcher yourself and wish to look at the Hebrew or Greek version, too. Just to compare the meaning of the two translations to 'exchange' and 'regain' is nightfilling. In another version the term 'soul' equivalents the word 'life'. And this is what it is. No soul - machine. Machine - no life. (Did I tell you that I love huge and powerful machines and talk to computers and systems?)

Just yesterday my daughter sat with me and sparklingly told me about that other people noticed her voice getting more and more soul when she is singing just for fun.

She went through a lot last year. She grew - inside. Voice makes it clear.

Definitely souls grow with what they  go through. 

 

Immensely.

See, you only lose when you don't dare going for life itself. Your life, of course. You got yours as a major gift - the main gift we can receive. If we avoid living, what do we earn? What do we achieve if we do not go for what our soul tells us?  If we go for what others tell us or have told us in the past so that we still are stuck with their wishes and influences?

Nothing, I fear. But this is my opinion.

The quote is actually robbed a little from the website of an actor I know coincidentally and who plays both film and theatre.

I didn't know where the quote is from and the man I actually met again when buying my longtime favourite dustbin. Life is like this - looking coincidentially, being all perfect. It is again only us who do not see the miracles. All knowledge is ready for us. It is us who need to be ready for the knowledge only.

And miracles happen in every day life.

Just start being open.

All is perfectly set up and made. Only human fly perception (you know what I mean?) makes us think we are the ones who manage.

We can create though - and feel the joy this gives. 

Eve felt when she realized for the very first time. Again - a metapher. About how counsciousness came into human life.

If there is no joy .... it was no creation. And joy differs severely from lust or just fun. It fulfils. It is deep. It exists out of the act of creation, deep inside of us.

Think about ... hopefully.

Yours,
Lyn