Calm Like a Weaned Child
I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child resting with its mother.
Am I at ease only when I gain something, or is simply being held enough?
📝Reflection
The depth of this image is in "a weaned child." A nursing infant frets to get something, but a weaned child is now content simply to be held in its mother's arms — at peace not because it got what it wanted, but by the togetherness itself. I always believed I would be at ease only once I gained more, and so I always fretted. But true calm came not from gaining but from trust. To stop demanding more and to enjoy being held now — that stillness of the weaned child, I only began to learn a little past forty. Contentment lay not in filling but in stopping.
🌱Apply It Today
Today, when "if only I get this, I'll be at ease" arises, ask once: "is it enough just as it is now?"
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
