Kindle Notes & Highlights
Jesus said, “This heaven will disappear, and the one above it will disappear too. Those who are dead aren’t alive, and those who are living won’t die. In the days when you ate what was dead, you made it alive. When you’re in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were One, you became divided. But when you become divided, what will you do?”
it’s not what goes into your mouth that will defile you. What comes out of your mouth is what will defile you.”
The disciples asked Jesus, “Tell us about our end. How will it come?” Jesus asked, “Have you discovered the beginning so that you can look for the end? Because the end will be where the beginning is. Blessed is the one who will stand up in the beginning. They’ll know the end, and won’t taste death.”
The disciples asked Jesus, “Tell us, what can Ultimate Reality be compared to?” He told them, “It can be compared to a mustard seed. Though it’s the smallest of all the seeds, when it falls on tilled soil it makes a plant so large that it shelters the birds of heaven.”
“When you make the two into One,” Jesus told them, “and make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and so make the male and the female a single One so that the male won’t be male nor the female female; when you make eyes in the place of an eye, a hand in the place of a hand, a foot in the place of a foot, and an image in the place of an image; then you’ll enter Ultimate Reality.”
“Light exists within people of light, and they light up the whole world. If they don’t shine, there’s darkness.”
Jesus said, “I stood in the middle of the world and appeared to them in the flesh. I found them all drunk; I didn’t find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they were blind in their hearts and couldn’t see. They came into the world empty and plan on leaving the world empty. Meanwhile, they’re drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they’ll change.”
Jesus said, “The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys of knowledge and hidden them. They haven’t entered, and haven’t let others enter who wanted to. So be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”
His disciples asked him, “Is circumcision useful, or not?” “If it were useful,” he told them, “parents would have children who are born circumcised. But the true circumcision in spirit has become profitable in every way.”
They saw a Samaritan carrying a lamb to Judea. He asked his disciples, “What do you think he’s going to do with that lamb?” “He’s going to kill it and eat it,” they told him. “While it’s living,” he told them, “he won’t eat it, but only after he kills it and it becomes a corpse.” “He can’t do it any other way,” they said. “You, too, look for a resting place,” he told them, “so that you won’t become a corpse and be eaten.”
“So I’m telling you, if someone is equal, they’ll be full of light; but if they’re divided, they’ll be full of darkness.”
He said, “A creditor owned a vineyard. He leased it out to some sharecroppers to work it so he could collect its fruit. “He sent his servant so that the sharecroppers could give him the fruit of the vineyard. They seized his servant, beat him, and nearly killed him. “The servant went back and told his master. His master said, ‘Maybe he just didn’t know them.’ He sent another servant, but the tenants beat that one too. “Then the master sent his son, thinking, ‘Maybe they’ll show some respect to my son.’ “Because they knew that he was the heir of the vineyard, the sharecroppers seized and killed
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Jesus said, “Blessed are you when you’re hated and harassed, and no place will be found where you’ve been harassed.”
Jesus said, “Blessed are those who’ve been harassed in their own hearts. They’ve truly known the Source. Blessed are those who are hungry, so that their stomachs may be filled.”
Jesus said, “The harvest really is plentiful, but the workers are few. So pray that the Lord will send workers to the harvest.”
“You, too, look for the treasure that doesn’t perish but endures, where no moths come to eat and no worms destroy.”
Jesus said, “I’m the light that’s over everything. I am everything; it’s come from me and unfolds toward me. “Split a log; I’m there. Lift the stone, and you’ll find me there.”
Jesus said, “When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images that came into being before you did – which don’t die, and aren’t revealed – how much you’ll have to bear!”
Jesus said, “How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on both.”
Jesus said, “Ultimate Reality can be compared to a man who wanted to kill someone powerful. He drew his sword in his house and drove it into the wall to figure out whether his hand was strong enough. Then he killed the powerful one.”
Jesus said, “How awful for the Pharisees who are like a dog sleeping in a feeding trough for cattle, because the dog doesn’t eat, and doesn’t let the cattle eat either.”
Jesus said, “Blessed is the one who knows where the bandits are going to enter. They can get up to assemble their defenses and be prepared to defend themselves before they arrive.”
