Song of Solomon 2:12 · World English Bible
Song of Solomon 2:12 Meaning The Flowers Appear on the Earth
The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
What does Song of Solomon 2:12 mean?
The awakening of the soul shows itself as flowers breaking through the earth of the body, the first visible signs that consciousness has risen from its long winter. The earth is the flesh, and the blossoms are the fresh states of awareness opening in a person once the cold has passed.
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The awakening of the soul shows itself as flowers breaking through the earth of the body, the first visible signs that consciousness has risen from its long winter. The earth is the flesh, and the blossoms are the fresh states of awareness opening in a person once the cold has passed. The singing birds are thoughts rising in joy rather than fear, and the voice of the turtledove is the gentle inner calling of the spirit, faint at first, now clearly heard across the whole inner land.
Every image here is the same event told in flowers, in song, in the returning dove: the life within has come back, and the person hears his own spirit speaking again.
Flowers: the fresh states of awareness opening in a person once the soul's winter has passed Earth: the flesh, the ground of the body from which new consciousness rises Singing birds: thoughts lifting in joy, the mind quickened and glad rather than fearful Voice of the turtle: the gentle inner call of the spirit, the dove's soft note heard within the land of the self
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Live Song of Solomon 2:12 today
- Give yourself five minutes of real quiet today, phone face down and out of reach, and let whatever is gentle in you get a word in. It usually speaks at the volume of the room you make for it.
- Say out loud to one person something good that has come back in you lately, even if it feels small. Naming it makes it visible, to them and to you.
- On your commute or in a grocery line, pick one thing that is actually alive, a tree, a face, the light, and let it be the best thing in your day. Signs of life are rarely dramatic and are almost never hidden.
What soft thing has been saying something to me that I keep turning the volume down on?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen saying
In spring, hundreds of flowers. The awakening is not an idea about awakening, it is the plain fact of blossoms.
Tao Te Ching
The soft voice is the one that carries. What is real in you speaks quietly, which is why you have to get still to hear it.
Sufism · Rumi
There is a voice that does not use words, and the only thing it asks is that you stop talking long enough. When you do, you hear it has been calling the whole time.
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