Shallow Brooks Babble, Deep Pools Are Still
What is lacking makes noise; what is full is silent. The fool is like a half-filled pot; the wise, like a brimming pool.
Am I noisy because I am empty, or quiet because I am full?
📝Reflection
Shake a half-filled water pot and it sloshes loudly. But a brimming pot stays quiet however you shake it. The image — that people are the same — fits more and more as one lives. Those who truly know much do not blurt it about. The more shallowly one knows, the louder the voice, the harder the effort to prove oneself. The more empty space, the more noise. This is not a matter of how much one talks, but of inner fullness. One filled within has no need to clamor outward; that stillness is itself proof of fullness. So do not mistake another's silence for incompetence — and now and then look in to see whether you yourself are clamoring out of unease.
🌱Apply It Today
When you feel the urge to add one more word to prove yourself today, notice it and choose silence just once. Stillness can be the deeper speech.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
