Proverbs 21:7 · World English Bible
Proverbs 21:7 Meaning The Violence of the Wicked Will Drive
The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
What does Proverbs 21:7 mean?
Every attack a mind sends out returns to its sender, for there is only one mind and the guilt hurled outward lands back home. The ego calls this taking, this seizing of what seems to belong to another, and it does not see that the one it robs is itself.
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Every attack a mind sends out returns to its sender, for there is only one mind and the guilt hurled outward lands back home. The ego calls this taking, this seizing of what seems to belong to another, and it does not see that the one it robs is itself. What it refuses is the single fair judgment, the one that would look on a brother and find him innocent, and by refusing it the mind keeps its own condemnation intact.
The undoing is simple. A mind that stops accusing has stopped attacking itself, and the guilt it feared would destroy it was only ever its own refusal to forgive.
The wicked: the part of the mind ruled by fear, which believes it can gain by taking from another and never sees that the loss falls on itself
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Live Proverbs 21:7 today
- Pick the person you have been quietly convicting in your head on the drive or in the shower and stop the case for one day. No new evidence, no replaying the scene. See what your own chest does.
- When you are tempted to pass along the unflattering detail about someone in the group chat, let it die with you. Taking a little from their name does not add anything to yours.
- If someone cuts you off, takes credit, or snaps at you today, skip the moment where you decide what they are. Deal with the thing itself and leave the verdict unwritten.
Who am I still holding guilty, and what is it costing me to keep the case open?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · Dhammapada
Harm aimed at a blameless person comes back on the one who threw it, like fine dust thrown against the wind. Hatred is never ended by hatred.
Tao Te Ching 79
Keeping a ledger of wrongs is a debt you end up paying yourself. The wise settle the account by closing the book.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is to refuse to become like the person who wronged you. Your judgment of them is the only part of this that can actually harm you.
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