Proverbs 5:20 · World English Bible
Proverbs 5:20 Meaning For Why Should You
For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
What does Proverbs 5:20 mean?
The mind leaves the love it holds within to pursue what promises satisfaction and delivers only thirst, and the strangeness of this wandering is worth seeing. What seems foreign and outside, forever just beyond reach, is the ego's endless allure, and to embrace it is to trust the very thing that keeps the mind separate and unfed.
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The mind leaves the love it holds within to pursue what promises satisfaction and delivers only thirst, and the strangeness of this wandering is worth seeing. What seems foreign and outside, forever just beyond reach, is the ego's endless allure, and to embrace it is to trust the very thing that keeps the mind separate and unfed. The question here is gentle, meant not to shame but to wake.
Why chase what cannot fill when what fills is already held? A mind that hears the question turns back and remembers where its peace has always lived.
Strange woman: the ego's alluring promise that fulfillment lies outside, the seductive belief in separation that draws the mind away from its own source Bosom of a stranger: the false comfort the mind seeks in what is foreign to it, the embrace of the outside world that leaves it emptier than before
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Live Proverbs 5:20 today
- Watch yourself open the shopping app or the feed and ask what you were feeling one second before. Usually it is not wanting the thing, it is wanting out of the moment.
- The next time you catch yourself comparing your life to someone's posts, put the phone down and look around your actual room. Theirs is edited. Yours is real.
- In the grocery line or stuck in traffic, resist the urge to fill the gap with your screen. Just be in the three minutes. The restlessness passes and nothing was missing.
What am I chasing that has never once filled me when I got it?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · Second Noble Truth
The teaching says the ache comes from thirst, from wanting the next thing to be the thing. The chase is the pain, not the lack of what you are chasing.
Tao Te Ching 44
Knowing when you have enough is the only real wealth. The one who keeps reaching stays poor no matter what arrives.
Stoicism · Seneca
He wrote that it is not the person who has little who is poor, but the one who wants more. No amount of having cures the wanting.
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