Proverbs 7:2 · World English Bible
Proverbs 7:2 Meaning Keep My Commandments and Live
Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
What does Proverbs 7:2 mean?
To keep love's teaching and truly live are the same movement, for the mind is only alive to the degree it has chosen love as its teacher. What the ego calls life, a careful defense against a threatening world, is closer to sleep, while the guidance held as dear as sight itself wakes the mind to what it really is.
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To keep love's teaching and truly live are the same movement, for the mind is only alive to the degree it has chosen love as its teacher. What the ego calls life, a careful defense against a threatening world, is closer to sleep, while the guidance held as dear as sight itself wakes the mind to what it really is. To guard this law like the apple of the eye is to protect not a rule but the very way one sees.
The law cherished here is simply the willingness to look with love. A mind that guards its sight this closely finds the whole world softens, because how it chooses to see decides what it will meet, and to keep love as its way of seeing is to live.
Law: the guidance of love, cherished as the mind's very way of seeing, the willingness to look without fear Apple of the eye: the mind's power of sight, the perception guarded most closely because how one sees decides what one meets
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Live Proverbs 7:2 today
- On the commute, pick one person and quietly wish them a good day, no matter how they are driving or standing or chewing. It changes the whole ride.
- Before you open a message from someone you find difficult, decide to read it in the most generous tone it could possibly carry. Then read it.
- In a meeting where you feel defensive, look for one thing the other person is actually right about and say so. Seeing fairly is a thing you can choose on the spot.
What would today look like if I kept choosing the kinder reading?
The same truth in other traditions
Buddhism · the Dhammapada
All that we are arises from what we have thought, and the world we meet is shaped by the mind we bring to it. Guard the seeing and the rest follows.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
He wrote that our life is what our thoughts make it, so the care of one's perception is the whole work. What you choose to look for is what your day will contain.
Sufism · Rumi
He said that what you seek is seeking you, and that the eye decides whether the world appears as thorn or rose. Change the looking and the garden changes.
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