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Proverbs 5:19 · World English Bible

Proverbs 5:19 Meaning A Loving Doe and a Graceful Deer—

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

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What does Proverbs 5:19 mean?

The love that already lives within is gentle and unforced, inviting the mind to rest in it with the ease of a creature at home in its own field. Where the ego's cravings are restless and never filled, this inner love satisfies completely, so that the mind, having drunk, looks nowhere else.

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The love that already lives within is gentle and unforced, inviting the mind to rest in it with the ease of a creature at home in its own field. Where the ego's cravings are restless and never filled, this inner love satisfies completely, so that the mind, having drunk, looks nowhere else. To be taken up wholly by it is to let it become the mind's constant teacher, the presence returned to at all times.

The mind that leans on this love is never left wanting, and has no thirst left to send it searching.

Loving hind and pleasant roe: the gentle, unforced love within the mind, tender and at peace, that the mind is meant to rest in without strain Breasts: the nourishing inner source that satisfies the mind completely, the love that feeds it so fully no other hunger remains

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Live Proverbs 5:19 today

  1. Take one thing off your list today that you only put there out of restlessness. Let the afternoon be unforced and see that nothing falls apart.
  2. Be with someone without trying to get anything from the time, no plan, no agenda, just sitting in the same room. The easy kind of company is the kind people remember.
  3. In the middle of a stressful stretch, drop your shoulders and slow your breathing before you handle the next thing. Doing it calmly works better than doing it hard.

What in my life is already enough, if I stopped straining past it?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 8

Water does not force, it settles and finds the low places, and nothing is stronger. The best things do not strain.

Zen

When you are tired, rest. When you are hungry, eat. The peace is in the ease, not in the effort to get somewhere else.

Hinduism · Upanishads

The teaching describes a joy that does not depend on anything arriving, a fullness already complete in itself. One who tastes it stops going out for more.

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