Proverbs 1:30 · World English Bible
Proverbs 1:30 Meaning They Wanted None of My Counsel
They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
What does Proverbs 1:30 mean?
The refusal is stated plainly, without blame, because it was always a choice and never a lack. Guidance stood ready and correction was offered, and a mind bent on defending its grievances would have none of it.
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The refusal is stated plainly, without blame, because it was always a choice and never a lack. Guidance stood ready and correction was offered, and a mind bent on defending its grievances would have none of it. To despise the reproof is to guard the wound as a possession, to prefer the familiar weight of being wronged over the freedom of being healed. This is the ego's single move, made again and again against its own peace.
Nothing forced this outcome and nothing seals it. The counsel a mind once wanted none of remains exactly where it was, ready the moment that same mind would rather be free than right.
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Live Proverbs 1:30 today
- Pick the grievance you tell the best, the one with the smoothest story. Try telling it to yourself once without the part that makes you the wronged one, and feel how much you want that part back.
- The next time someone gives you advice you did not ask for, hear it all the way to the end before deciding it is wrong. Even if you still disagree, let them finish without you arguing inside your head.
- In the middle of an argument, when you feel the pull to win, ask yourself quietly whether you would rather be free of this or right about this. Then answer with your next sentence.
Which hurt have I started to keep on purpose, because letting it heal would cost me something I like being?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
A man carried a heavy stone for years and told everyone how it weighed on him. When a monk offered to take it, he turned away. The stone had become proof of something he did not want to lose.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
Drop the thought "I have been harmed" and the harm itself drops away. The injury lives in the holding, not in the event.
Sufism · Rumi
Do not hide your illness from the physician. The one who conceals the wound to keep his dignity keeps the sickness with it.
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