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   From: nottony.nokingsbury@ngmail.com   
      
   On 12/09/2016 7:32 AM, brian mitchell wrote:   
   > Ummmmmmm wrote:   
   >   
   >> In the same way as Jesus's teaching that "the Kingdom of Heaven is   
   >> within you" has been completely forgotten by modern Christianity.   
   >   
   > Where is this "within"?   
   >   
   > It isn't distributed through the flesh.   
   >   
   > It isn't sequestered in the accumulation of thought and experience.   
   >   
   > So where?   
   >   
   > Point to it, please.   
   >   
   Sorry, can't do it.   
   I've thought hard about this (would like to do it if I could)   
      
   You (and everyone on this ng) have an inner life. You experience it.   
   If you walked up to someone in the street and said "Can you point to my   
   inner life?" - they wouldn't be able to. It's private to you.   
      
   That said, I've a feeling that if you met a Sage or a Master (in real   
   life, not in a book or a movie) and asked them the same question, they   
   might be able to do just that - & probably in (and with) a twinkling of   
   an eye.   
      
   Unfortunately, I'm neither a sage or a master, just a student. So you'll   
   have to point it out to yourself. The fact that you can make such a   
   request, seriously it seems, shows that you really do know where it's at.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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