Proverbs 26:6 · World English Bible
Proverbs 26:6 Meaning One Who Sends a Message
One who sends a message by the hand of a fool is cutting off feet and drinking violence.
What does Proverbs 26:6 mean?
When a mind entrusts its purpose to fear, it cripples the very thing it hoped to carry forward. To send love's message by the ego's hand is to ask separation to deliver union, and the errand can only fail, for fear distorts whatever it is given and returns harm to the one who sent it.
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When a mind entrusts its purpose to fear, it cripples the very thing it hoped to carry forward. To send love's message by the ego's hand is to ask separation to deliver union, and the errand can only fail, for fear distorts whatever it is given and returns harm to the one who sent it.
The damage is self-inflicted, drunk down by the mind that chose the wrong messenger. Nothing outside did the wounding. The correction is to change the hand, to let the message be carried by the teacher who does not disfigure it, and then what is sent arrives whole.
Hand: the messenger the mind chooses to carry its purpose, faithful when it is love and crippling when it is fear. Feet: the mind's power to move toward its goal, cut off when its own purpose is entrusted to what would betray it.
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Live Proverbs 26:6 today
- Before you send a message written while annoyed, read it as if it arrived from someone else. If the mood is louder than the point, write it again once you have cooled.
- When you need something from a person today, ask for it straight instead of hinting or going through someone else. The shortcut usually costs more than the ask would have.
- Under deadline, when you want to fire off the quick sharp version just to be done, wait the two minutes. The thing you send in a hurry is usually the thing you spend an hour repairing.
Who was carrying my last message, the part of me that wanted to help, or the part that wanted to be done?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 8
Water benefits everything without struggling. What is carried in the right spirit arrives, and what is forced arrives spoiled.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
The act takes its character from the state you were in when you did it. A good deed done in resentment delivers the resentment.
Zen
The cup you pour from flavors the water. A teaching passed through an unsettled mind reaches the other person unsettled.
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