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Proverbs 27:27 · World English Bible

Proverbs 27:27 Meaning There Will Be Plenty of Goats’ Milk

There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

What does Proverbs 27:27 mean?

When a mind tends its thoughts with love, the nourishment that flows is never scarce. There is enough for itself, enough for every part of the inner house, and enough for the quieter powers that serve it, because what love provides is not divided by the number who draw on it.

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When a mind tends its thoughts with love, the nourishment that flows is never scarce. There is enough for itself, enough for every part of the inner house, and enough for the quieter powers that serve it, because what love provides is not divided by the number who draw on it. The ego's math of lack does not apply here; giving does not empty the source.

So a mind that has learned to care for what it holds finds it is fed on every level at once. The same quiet abundance that sustains it flows out to sustain all that lives within.

Goats' milk: the steady nourishment that flows from thoughts a mind has tended with love, the provision that never runs short Household: the many parts of the inner life, all the thoughts and faculties that live within a single mind and are fed together Maidens: the quieter powers of the mind that serve it, sustained by the same abundance that feeds the whole

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Live Proverbs 27:27 today

  1. When the thought shows up that there is not enough time, enough money, enough of you to go around, hold it long enough to see whether it is actually true right now.
  2. Give something away today without checking what comes back, your attention in a conversation, a real answer to an email, twenty minutes of help. See if you feel emptier.
  3. At family dinner or with a friend who needs a lot from you tonight, show up without rationing yourself. You will find there is more there than you budgeted for.

Where are you living as if you might run out?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 81

The more you give away, the more you have. The source does not run low from being drawn on.

Buddhism · Metta Sutta

Wish every being well as a mother guards her only child, and let that goodwill run out in all directions without limit.

Judaism · Pirkei Avot

Who is rich? The one who is content with what they have. Fullness is a way of holding things, not a quantity.

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