When you know yourselves, then you will be known

Jesus said,

“If your leaders say to you,
‘Look, the (Father’s) kingdom is in the sky,’
then the birds of the sky will precede you.
If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’
then the fish will precede you.
Rather, the (Father’s) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.

When you know yourselves,
then you will be known,
and you will understand that you are children of the living Father.
But if you do not know yourselves,
then you live in poverty,
and you are the poverty.”~ The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus (saying #3)

h/t The Wondrous Dharma

The Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal text of the New Testament Bible. That means it didn’t made the final cut for the Bible as it’s widely known today. It was found in 1945 and is dated around 340 AD.

I read the Gospel of Thomas while I was studying comparative religion in college and have revisited parts of it from time to time. Seeing it on The Wondrous Dharma blog the other day I realized it would be worth a read once again. Living words are like that.