Jeremiah 18:3 · World English Bible
Jeremiah 18:3 Meaning Then I Went Down to the Potter’s
Then I went down to the potter’s house, and behold, he was making something on the wheels.
What does Jeremiah 18:3 mean?
The potter is your own imagination, and the potter's house is your own being, the wheel of thought turning under your hand. To go down to that house is to turn inward to the place where every condition is shaped.
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The potter is your own imagination, and the potter's house is your own being, the wheel of thought turning under your hand. To go down to that house is to turn inward to the place where every condition is shaped. The work on the wheels is the constant forming of states, for the mind is never idle; it is always at the clay, making one thing and then another.
The clay is the self, and the imagination reworks it. When a state comes out spoiled, unwanted, sickly, the same power that formed it takes it up again and shapes it anew, which is what revision is. A person does not accept a marred condition, in himself or in another, as final. He returns to the wheel and forms it as he would have it, feeling and hearing it as already changed. Whatever concept a person holds of himself in imagination is the vessel he is making, and it can always be broken down and made again.
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Live Jeremiah 18:3 today
- At the end of today, pick one moment that went badly and replay it the way you would have had it go, with the same people, a better ending. Feel it as the version that happened.
- Someone you know is carrying a rough patch. Hold a picture of them well and settled instead of worried about them, and speak to them from that picture.
- When a day goes sideways by noon, do not write it off. Take a minute in the car or the stairwell, reshape it, and go back in as the person who had a good day.
What in today would I like to put back on the wheel before I sleep?
The same truth in other traditions
Taoism · Chuang Tzu
A man is like metal in the smith's furnace, poured and poured again. Nothing that was cast is beyond recasting.
Buddhism · Dhammapada
Mind is the maker, and what you are now was made by thought. What thought made, thought can make again.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
When you fall out of the person you meant to be, return to it. Do it again as often as you need, without making a drama of the falling.
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