The Law of Enough — When More Stops Adding

People search for how to make more money.
Almost no one searches for how much is enough.

And yet, that’s the only search that ever ends well.

The last Babylonian tablet — the one nearly turned to dust — carried a single line:

“When the chest is full, the heart grows restless.”

It sounds poetic, but it’s really a diagnosis.
We keep chasing “more” because we mistake growth for peace.
But peace begins at the moment you can say: this serves me — beyond this, I serve it.

Modern finance calls it “financial independence.”
Philosophy calls it “sufficiency.”
The ancients simply called it enough.

Enough doesn’t mean complacency.
It means completion — the quiet state where work still matters,
but it no longer consumes you.
Where you grow not out of hunger, but out of gratitude.

The secret is that “enough” is not a number.
It’s a ratio between money and meaning.
When meaning grows, you need less money to feel rich.
When meaning shrinks, no fortune can fill the gap.

So start there:
Ask not, “How much more can I earn?”
Ask, “How much more peace can I keep while earning it?”

That shift alone — from quantity to quality of calm — is where true wealth begins.

Because one day, as the old scribe wrote,

“Those who seek gold for peace will find it.
Those who seek peace for gold will never rest.”

— Filip Filatov

(Inspired by Ten Sacred Rules of Wealth — a timeless reflection on balance, purpose, and financial peace.)