Proverbs 15:7 · World English Bible
Proverbs 15:7 Meaning The Lips of the Wise Spread Knowledge
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
What does Proverbs 15:7 mean?
A mind that has accepted peace cannot help but scatter it, the way light cannot help but shine. What it knows it gives without measuring, and in the giving the knowledge is not lost but multiplied.
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A mind that has accepted peace cannot help but scatter it, the way light cannot help but shine. What it knows it gives without measuring, and in the giving the knowledge is not lost but multiplied. Wisdom is never hoarded, because to share it is the only way to keep it.
The closed heart withholds, imagining it can stay full while another goes empty. That is the ego's arithmetic, which believes it must lose whatever it releases. Yet the mind that keeps its healing to itself only deepens the separation, while the one who freely gives finds itself richer for having emptied its hands.
Lips: the outward reach of a healed mind, the means by which inner peace is scattered like seed to whoever will receive it. Heart: the inner center where the mind either shares its wholeness or closes around it, choosing to give or to withhold.
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Live Proverbs 15:7 today
- Write down the one thing you have figured out the hard way that would help someone else, then send it to one person today instead of keeping it as a note to yourself.
- When a friend or coworker is stuck on something you already know, give them the whole answer rather than the hint. Holding part of it back costs you more than it costs them.
- In a meeting where you could look smart by sitting on what you know, say it plainly and let someone else run with it. The credit you give away does not leave the room.
What am I keeping to myself that would cost me nothing to hand over?
The same truth in other traditions
Stoicism · Seneca
No good thing is pleasant to own without someone to share it with. What I learn I hand to you at once, and I hold it better for having handed it over.
Tao Te Ching
The sage stores nothing up and is never empty. Giving is how such a person stays full, not how they run out.
Judaism · Pirkei Avot
What you have learned, pass on. Knowledge kept to yourself dries up, and what you teach you come to understand twice.
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