“Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.”
But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me. The shift to positive assertion reveals the psychological and spiritual outcome of relinquishing presumption: a soul marked by calm and quietude rather than anxious striving. The simile of the weaned child is striking—no longer dependent on nourishment from the mother yet remaining with her in security and companionship, representing a maturity that has moved beyond neediness without losing communion. The doubling of the comparison (and in its repetition) emphasizes the internalization of this posture; the speaker has become like this child, embodying its peaceful security. This image suggests that spiritual maturity consists not in knowledge gained but in anxiety relinquished.
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