Proverbs 29:14 · World English Bible
Proverbs 29:14 Meaning The King Who Fairly Judges the Poor
The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.
What does Proverbs 29:14 mean?
Everything rests on how the deciding part of the mind looks upon what seems weak and empty within. When it judges its own poverty faithfully, it stops condemning those places for being bare and sees them as innocent, worthy of care rather than blame.
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Everything rests on how the deciding part of the mind looks upon what seems weak and empty within. When it judges its own poverty faithfully, it stops condemning those places for being bare and sees them as innocent, worthy of care rather than blame.
What is built on that gentleness cannot be shaken, because it needs no defense and so has nothing to fear. A mind that looks kindly on its own lack has already laid down its weapons, and what does not attack can rest in peace forever.
King: the deciding power in the mind, the chooser that rules by the teacher it selects The poor: the parts of the self that seem empty or lacking, waiting to be judged or blessed Throne: the settled ground of the mind, the seat of judgment that holds firm when it rests on love
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Live Proverbs 29:14 today
- Pick the thing about yourself you are quickest to criticise and, just for today, speak to it the way you would to a friend with the same problem.
- Admit one small thing you do not know to someone at work or at dinner, plainly, without softening it with a joke. It tends to put everyone at ease.
- On a day you get less done than you planned, skip the inner lecture. Say what actually happened, let it be true, and go make dinner.
What part of myself am I still treating as a problem instead of something to care for?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 8
What is lowest and emptiest is where everything gathers. The valley holds the water precisely because it does not stand above anything.
Buddhism · self-compassion
The kindness you would offer a friend in pain belongs to you too. A mind at war with its own weakness has no ground left to stand on.
Sufism · Rumi
The place in you that feels broken is not a disgrace to be hidden. It is the opening through which longing turns toward what it loves.
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