Proverbs 13:25 · World English Bible
Proverbs 13:25 Meaning The Righteous One Eats to the Satisfying
The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
What does Proverbs 13:25 mean?
The mind that has chosen love is filled, because it draws on a peace that does not run out and asks nothing from the world to complete it. Its fullness is inward, and so it is never at the mercy of what the body is given or denied.
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The mind that has chosen love is filled, because it draws on a peace that does not run out and asks nothing from the world to complete it. Its fullness is inward, and so it is never at the mercy of what the body is given or denied.
The ego, by contrast, is a hunger that cannot be fed, for it seeks in outer things a wholeness that only forgiveness restores. It will always want, because it is looking in the one place peace was never kept.
Belly: the ego's appetite that no outer thing can fill, the craving of a mind seeking wholeness where it was never lost
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Live Proverbs 13:25 today
- When you reach for your phone out of a restless kind of hunger tonight, sit with the restlessness for one minute first. It is usually asking for something no screen holds.
- At a meal with someone today, stay at the table after the food is gone instead of checking out. The part that actually fills you is the part most people leave early.
- When you feel the itch to buy, scroll or snack your way out of a tense afternoon, name what you are actually missing. Rest, usually, or company, or a kind word about yourself.
What am I trying to fill from the outside that was never emptied there?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
There is no greater poverty than not knowing when to stop. Contentment is the only wealth that stays.
Buddhism · Second Noble Truth
Suffering comes from craving, from the reaching that never lands. The hunger is not satisfied by getting; it ends when the reaching stops.
Stoicism · Seneca
No amount is enough for a person who thinks enough is never enough. The lack is in the wanting, not in the supply.
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