Proverbs 25:16 · World English Bible
Proverbs 25:16 Meaning Have You Found Honey
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.
What does Proverbs 25:16 mean?
Even a real good can be turned into a form of hunger when the mind seizes it to fill an emptiness that was never outside. The sweetness itself is not the danger; the danger is the grasping that treats a gift as though it could complete a mind that already lacks nothing.
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Even a real good can be turned into a form of hunger when the mind seizes it to fill an emptiness that was never outside. The sweetness itself is not the danger; the danger is the grasping that treats a gift as though it could complete a mind that already lacks nothing.
What is taken in excess is taken to quiet a fear, and the fear returns the moment the pleasure fades, so the mind is left emptier than before. A mind that receives what it is given without clutching finds that enough was always there, because its true fullness was never a thing to be swallowed.
Honey: the pleasures and goods of the world, sweet in themselves but turned into idols when the mind grasps them to fill an emptiness that is not real.
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Live Proverbs 25:16 today
- Next time you are scrolling past the point of enjoying it, stop at one more video instead of twenty. The pleasure ended a while ago; only the reaching is still going.
- At a meal with people, eat until you are satisfied and then spend the rest of the time actually with them. The company was the better part anyway.
- When a hard day makes you want to buy something, order something, or pour something, name the feeling first: I am tired, or lonely, or anxious. Then decide, instead of reaching.
What am I reaching for more of, when what I have is already enough?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 44
Knowing when you have enough is the only real wealth. Grasping for more is how people lose what they already hold.
Buddhism · Second Noble Truth
Suffering grows out of craving, not out of the thing craved. The sweetness is innocent; the clutching is what hurts.
Stoicism · Epictetus
Take what is set before you and stop there, even if more is in reach. Freedom is being able to put the dish down.
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