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Proverbs 30:7 · World English Bible

Proverbs 30:7 Meaning Two Things I Have Asked of You

Two things I have asked of you. Don’t deny me before I die.

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What does Proverbs 30:7 mean?

When a mind turns to its Source and asks for only two things before the end, it has begun to sort the ego's countless wants down to what truly matters. The ego multiplies desires without number, each one promising the peace the last one failed to bring.

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When a mind turns to its Source and asks for only two things before the end, it has begun to sort the ego's countless wants down to what truly matters. The ego multiplies desires without number, each one promising the peace the last one failed to bring.

To narrow the whole clamor to a single honest request is already a healing, for the mind learns it does not need what it thought it could not live without. The death it names is the passing of the false self, and it asks to be emptied of illusion while the willingness to receive is still alive.

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Live Proverbs 30:7 today

  1. Open your cart or your wish list today and clear everything you cannot honestly say you need. Watch how little the deleting costs you.
  2. Ask someone close to you what they actually want from you this week, and let it be one thing rather than a dozen assumed ones.
  3. When the day fills up and everything looks urgent, pick the one thing that truly matters and let the rest wait without a story about failing. Most of it was never required.

If I could ask for only two things today, what would they be?

The same truth in other traditions

Stoicism · Epictetus

Wealth is not having many things, it is wanting few. The shortest road to enough is a shorter list.

Buddhism

Craving is the thirst that drinking never ends, because each want promises the rest it cannot give. Seeing that is already the loosening.

Tao Te Ching 46

There is no greater misfortune than not knowing when you have enough. The one who knows it is quietly rich.

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