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Proverbs 10:3 · World English Bible

Proverbs 10:3 Meaning Yahweh Will Not Allow the Soul

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

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What does Proverbs 10:3 mean?

The mind that has chosen love is fed from within, kept whole by a source the ego cannot reach or interrupt. What sustains it is not anything gathered from the world but the quiet certainty of its own innocence, and that certainty does not run dry, because it was never dependent on getting.

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The mind that has chosen love is fed from within, kept whole by a source the ego cannot reach or interrupt. What sustains it is not anything gathered from the world but the quiet certainty of its own innocence, and that certainty does not run dry, because it was never dependent on getting.

What the fearful mind stockpiles, meanwhile, slips away in its hands, since guilt can build nothing that lasts. A mind that lives by attack and defense is always hungry, forever accumulating and forever emptied, while the mind at peace is quietly full and asks for nothing more.

The LORD: the Voice for love within the mind, the steady source that feeds a mind from within and cannot be interrupted by fear Substance of the wicked: everything the guilty mind stockpiles for safety, holdings that slip away because guilt can build nothing that lasts

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Live Proverbs 10:3 today

  1. Before you reach for your phone first thing, sit for one minute with nothing coming in. See whether you are actually as empty as the habit assumes.
  2. At a meal with someone today, let the conversation be the point instead of filling it. Being fully there is the thing people actually leave full from.
  3. In a stretch of the day where you feel short on something, time, patience, backup, resist the grab for more and ask what you already have that is enough for the next ten minutes.

Where am I trying to get from the world something I already carry?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching

The spring feeds the valley without being asked and never runs dry, because it is not drawing from the valley. What is fed from the source does not depend on the weather.

Hinduism · Bhagavad Gita

The one who is content in the self is steady whether the day brings gain or loss. Peace that depends on outcomes is not peace yet, only a good mood.

Sufism · Rumi

The thirst you feel is the proof the water exists. You are not empty, you are near something you have forgotten how to drink from.

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