Be Still and Know

📝Reflection

The Hebrew harpu means to loosen the grip of a clenched hand. The poet says knowing comes not from busyness but from stopping. Muddy water grows cloudier the more you stir it and clears only when left alone. So does the mind. Whenever I felt stuck, I moved more busily, stirring the mud on and on. But some answers recede the harder you strive, and surface from the bottom only when you let go and grow still. Stopping was not surrender; it was the wisdom of making room for cloudy water to clear itself.