Song of Solomon 1:7 · World English Bible
Song of Solomon 1:7 Meaning Tell Me
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
What does Song of Solomon 1:7 mean?
The heart asks for no gift and no favor. It wants only to know where the beloved rests at noon, where the flock lies down in the heat of the day, longing for the place of stillness itself.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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The heart asks for no gift and no favor. It wants only to know where the beloved rests at noon, where the flock lies down in the heat of the day, longing for the place of stillness itself. Under every want a person carries is this deeper want, to come home to what is loved and be quiet there.
Turning aside among strangers' flocks is the mind wandering from one substitute to another, mistaking noise for company. The soul knows the difference. What it seeks is the noonday quiet where love is simply present, and there the searching ends.
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The soul in a person searches for the inner beloved, asking where the higher self nourishes and stills its powers when the light is at its height. The flock is the gathered company of a person's faculties led as sheep, and noon is the moment of full inner light, the fire directly overhead, when the powers are meant to be fed and brought to rest in the presence of the higher self. The plea against turning aside by the flocks of the companions is the soul's refusal to graze among lesser attractions, the drift toward the pursuits of other, lower selves.
What happens inside is a longing to be led by the true center and not to wander. At the height of inner light the soul wants to know where its own powers are pastured and settled, so it feeds beside the beloved rather than straying among the distractions that belong to others.
Flock: the gathered faculties of a person led like sheep, the inner powers pastured and brought to rest Noon: the height of inner light, the fire overhead, the moment the powers are fed and stilled in the higher self Flocks of thy companions: the lesser attractions and pursuits of the lower selves toward which a person is tempted to stray
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Live Song of Solomon 1:7 today
- Find your noonday quiet somewhere in today, five minutes in the car before you go in, or on a bench outside. No podcast, no scrolling. Just sit where it is still.
- With one person today, be quiet together instead of filling the space. Sitting beside someone without talking is a kind of closeness that words keep interrupting.
- When the itch to scroll comes, see it for what it is, the want underneath wanting company. Let the phone stay down and feel the wanting without feeding it.
What have you been settling for because the real thing felt too quiet to find?
The same truth in other traditions
Sufism · Rumi
What you are seeking has been seeking you all along, and the longing itself is the thread between you.
Tao Te Ching 12
Too many sights, too many sounds, too many flavors, and the senses go numb. The one who is still keeps their taste for what is real.
Buddhism
The mind runs from one object to the next looking for rest it cannot find there. Rest is a place in you, not a thing to reach.
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