Hosea 13:6 · World English Bible
Hosea 13:6 Meaning According to Their Pasture
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
What does Hosea 13:6 mean?
When life gives you everything you asked for, a subtle danger arises. The mind, satisfied, mistakes the abundance for its own achievement, and something in you swells.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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Ego v. Being
EGO & BEING
Ego v. Being
When life gives you everything you asked for, a subtle danger arises. The mind, satisfied, mistakes the abundance for its own achievement, and something in you swells. This is the ego feeding on good fortune. While you were hungry, you still reached toward the Source. Now that you are full, you turn away from it, because you no longer feel your need.
Nothing has been taken from you. You have simply stopped noticing the deeper reality behind the surface of your comfort. Contentment turned inward on itself and forgot to look up. That is how being filled makes you forget: fullness quiets the very ache that once kept you awake to what sustains you.
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Live Hosea 13:6 today
- Before you eat tonight, pause for ten seconds over the plate and let yourself feel that almost none of this came from your own hands.
- When something goes well at work, say out loud to someone who helped that it would not have happened without them, and mean it.
- On a good day when you feel full and capable and a little above it all, call the person you forget to call when things are going fine.
What have you stopped being grateful for simply because you now have enough of it?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 9
Fill a cup to the brim and it spills. Sharpen a blade too far and it dulls. Riches and pride together prepare their own fall.
Stoicism · Epictetus
Do not be pleased with yourself for what is not yours. The good things came to you. They did not come from you.
Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita
Act, and release your grip on the fruit. The moment you claim the harvest as proof of your own greatness, you have lost the thread.
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