Proverbs 23:25 · World English Bible
Proverbs 23:25 Meaning Let Your Father and Your Mother Be
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
What does Proverbs 23:25 mean?
Every thought is born of a mind that carried it, and that mind shares whatever the thought becomes. When a mind chooses the miracle, the gladness spreads backward through everything that gave it form, because in truth there is only one mind rejoicing with itself.
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Every thought is born of a mind that carried it, and that mind shares whatever the thought becomes. When a mind chooses the miracle, the gladness spreads backward through everything that gave it form, because in truth there is only one mind rejoicing with itself. The gladness of the source and the joy of the one who bore the thought are not two feelings but a single recognition passing through what only seemed divided.
Separation would say each part stands alone and suffers alone. Love answers that no mind is glad by itself, for what heals in one is felt as healed in all.
Father: the mind that authors a thought, the strength from which a decision comes Mother: the mind that gives a thought its form and carries it into being She that bare thee: the tender aspect of mind in which a thought first took shape, feeling as its own whatever the thought now chooses
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Live Proverbs 23:25 today
- On your commute, think of one person whose care got you here, a parent, a teacher, an old friend. Let whatever calm you feel right now be theirs too.
- When you choose patience with someone today instead of the fast reply, tell yourself that this landed on more people than the two of you.
- In a moment where you feel alone with something hard, text one person a plain sentence about it. The relief that follows is not only yours.
Who is quietly lighter when I choose peace?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · Metta
Goodwill is not kept by the one who feels it. It moves outward through everyone connected to that person, including those who shaped them.
Zen · Thich Nhat Hanh
We are made of everyone who came before us, so a moment of peace in one person is peace in all of them at once.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
What helps the whole helps the part, since no limb is well on its own. The good of one is the good of the body it belongs to.
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