Proverbs 11:22 · World English Bible
Proverbs 11:22 Meaning Like a Gold Ring in a Pig’s
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
What does Proverbs 11:22 mean?
A gift of great worth set where it cannot be seen for what it is: this is what happens to the light within a mind that has no way to tell love from fear. The treasure is real and remains real, but placed in service of appetite and judgment it is used as if it were nothing, dragged through the very things it could heal.
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A gift of great worth set where it cannot be seen for what it is: this is what happens to the light within a mind that has no way to tell love from fear. The treasure is real and remains real, but placed in service of appetite and judgment it is used as if it were nothing, dragged through the very things it could heal. The fault is never in the jewel. It is in the eyes that cannot yet discern which teacher they are following, and so spend the holy on the trivial.
What the mind carries is precious beyond measure. Its only lack is the sight that would let it know this and choose accordingly.
Jewel of gold: the changeless worth within the mind, the light of its true nature that no misuse can tarnish. Swine's snout: the appetite of the ego, the grasping instinct that roots in the ground for satisfaction and cannot recognize what is holy. Fair woman: the mind gifted with beauty and power that has not yet learned to see, and so squanders what it holds.
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Live Proverbs 11:22 today
- Count what your attention actually went to in the last hour. Without scolding yourself, hand the next twenty minutes to something you would be glad you gave it to.
- When you are with someone today, put the phone in another room rather than face down. Let them have the whole of you, which is the valuable thing you keep spending on nothing.
- When a comment or a sharp email tempts you to spend an afternoon of your mind on it, name the trade out loud: this is what I would be giving up. Then pick the better use, even if the sting stays a while.
What have I been spending my best attention on, and what is it worth to me?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
A beggar sleeps every night on a bag of gold and wakes up poor. Nothing is missing except the seeing.
Bhagavad Gita
The senses pull in every direction at once, and a mind that follows them scatters its own power. Steadiness is not denial, it is finally knowing what is worth your attention.
Sufism · Rumi
You have been given a fortune and you keep spending it on trinkets. The loss is not in the gift, it is in not yet knowing what you are holding.
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