DAY 195
The One Thing I Ask
기원전 10~5세기
ORIGINAL
אַחַת שָׁאַלְתִּי מֵאֵת־יְהוָה
📜 THE VERSE
One thing I ask, only this: to dwell in quiet, gazing on what is beautiful.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
What is the "one thing" I truly ask for?
📝Reflection
This poet lists a hundred things, then suddenly stops and says: what I ask is really only one. Life grows chaotic not because we want much, but because we do not know the one thing we truly want. To dwell, gazing on what is beautiful — before that humble single wish, the other desires fall quiet. My list was always long, so I was always busy and always hungry. To name the one thing I truly wanted was also the courage to set down the other ninety-nine.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Today, from your many wishes, choose the "one thing" and write it as a sentence. Feel how the rest grow quiet.
📖 Source:
Psalm 27:4.
히브리어 원전 + 개역한글판(1961, PD) 참조, ONGO 자체 의역.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
