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Proverbs 14:27 · World English Bible

Proverbs 14:27 Meaning The Fear of Yahweh Is a Fountain

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

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What does Proverbs 14:27 mean?

Trust in love is a source that never runs dry, and a mind drinking there is drawn steadily away from the thoughts that would trap it. What the ego calls death is not the ending of a body but the belief in separation, the certainty of guilt that snares a mind and holds it in fear of its own making.

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Trust in love is a source that never runs dry, and a mind drinking there is drawn steadily away from the thoughts that would trap it. What the ego calls death is not the ending of a body but the belief in separation, the certainty of guilt that snares a mind and holds it in fear of its own making.

To turn toward love is to walk free of those traps, one gentle choice at a time. A mind that keeps returning to its Source finds the snares had no real hold, and the life welling up in it was there before it ever felt caught.

Fountain: the endless source of love within the mind, freely giving the life that fear cannot supply Snares: the ego's traps of guilt and separation, holding a mind only until it chooses to look away toward love

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Live Proverbs 14:27 today

  1. When you reach for your phone out of a vague empty feeling today, set it down and stay with the feeling for thirty seconds. See whether it was ever really hunger.
  2. Pick one old grievance you still replay about someone close to you, and let it go for the length of today. You can always pick it back up tomorrow, and you probably will not want to.
  3. When the pressure of a deadline makes your thoughts start spiraling, name the one next thing in front of you and do only that. The spiral has no hold once you stop walking into it.

What trap have you been sitting in with the door open the whole time?

The same truth in other traditions

Buddhism · Dhammapada

Craving is the net a mind weaves around itself, and what tangles there suffers. Stop feeding the craving and the net falls open on its own.

Tao Te Ching 4

The source is like a well that gives endlessly and never empties. Draw from it and nothing is used up.

Sufism · Rumi

There is a spring inside you. Stop walking around with an empty bucket looking for water elsewhere.

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