What is the heaviest burden that one has to bear alone, and what will eventually force one to shed it?
The heaviest burden is to bear poverty and death. People carry poverty and death everywhere, even though they think they are rich and alive. Only strictness (illness, prison, need, etc.) sent by the Almighty will make them finally stand on the ground of truth.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the children of the living Father. If you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are poverty.
The disciples said to Jesus, “Tell us what our end will be.” Jesus said, “Have you discovered the beginning in order to find the end? For where the beginning is, there will be the end. Blessed is the one who stands at the beginning, for he will know the end, and he will not taste death.”
For you have five trees in paradise that are still in summer and winter, and their leaves do not fall. The one who knows them will not taste death.
Jesus said, “Heaven and earth will roll over before you, and the one who is alive from the living will not see death. For (?) Jesus said, “The one who has found himself is not worthy of the world.”
Jesus said: Let the one who seeks not cease to seek until he finds, and when he finds, he will be shaken, and if he is shaken, he will be astonished, and he will reign over all.
The Gospel of Thomas
