I was just thinking about life when suddenly...

this floated/popped into my head...
the phrase, 'guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life...' but it wasn't phrased so clearly (my memory's a mess) so i went to google 'guard your heart proverbs' and found many versions of the same thing.

'Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.' - NKJV

'Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.' - NIV

Proverbs 4: 23

And then i didnt really get what 'keep your heart... with all diligence' meant so i googled the words. So... it looks something like this.

Keep (retain, maintain, preserve)  your heart with all diligence (steady effort, attentive care, earnest and persistent application); for out of it are the issues of life.

I love how the second part reads 'out of it are the issues of life' 
So true. 


And wellspring actually means : An original and bountiful source of something.
So... it'd be like... above all else guard your heart for it is the original and bountiful source of life.

okay now it sounds a little... i don't know... yoga-rish. (HAHA)
no disrespect.

I think it'd be interesting to study the... whatever language proverbs was originally written in (eg: hebrew word) for heart. I want to know what 'heart' refers to. 
In fact, i would like to know what this entire verse really means.  

I think language plays such an important role honestly.
Just look at the two translations.
They both project actually quite different images/meaning because of the choice of words used. 

This is why i really want to study the Bible in its original languages. 
English... ironically... is a very inadequate language. 
Doesn't have a wide enough vocab to accurately hit the spectrum of emotions/meanings. 
Oh this is why btw, english is an amalgam of many languages and this is also why in many parts of the world, for official world meetings, french is the preferred language (although it is very difficult to learn but precisely because it is way more accurate and precise a language as compared to english) for use. 

The bible should be in french. 
It probably is in france.
I should learn french.

I should learn more languages.
Languages are reeeaally inneresting.