A word of Torah: 
        The second week of the Omer is connected to the aspect of gevurah, which can be translated as limits or restraint. I want to suggest that seeing limits through the quality/middah of satisfaction may be a spiritually healthy way to make the journey to Sinai and beyond.
        There is a verse in Deut. that might suggest how to achieve satisfaction. “You shall eat, be satisfied and bless God, “(ve-akhalta, ve-savata uvei’rakhta Deut. 8:10). The verse suggests that we should enjoy the pleasures of this world, feel satisfied by what we have had, and then bless God, the creator of the world. Satisfaction comes from enjoying the world, not from refraining from all the world has to offer, but it is important to come to a place of feeling satisfied. This does not come about by measuring what we have as compared to our neighbor. What they have doesn’t detract from the apple that we ate or the beautiful sunset that we have witnessed. Satisfaction is a great gift that only we can give ourselves. No one can give it to us.
        The Gaon of Vilna, the 18^th century Talmudic scholar, wrote in Even sheleimah that there are three levels of satisfaction:
        The first is not to pursue something bigger and better. In this first level you retain a sense of something missing, but you push yourself to let it go.
        The second level is based on a rabbinic saying—who is wealthy? Someone who is happy with what he has (Ethics of our Ancestors 4:1). Alan Morinis, a contemporary Mussar teacher, suggests that satisfaction is not about being resigned with what you have, but being happy with what you have.
        The third level is recognizing that, in fact, I have everything –kol.” Even when we are happy with what we have, we still might feel that some things are missing. Awareness that I actually have everything conveys a sense of completeness. I feel satiated. I feel full.
        There is a verse from the daily liturgy that I never understood. “You give open-handedly, satisfying every living being to its heart’s content” (Ps. 145:15). There seem to be a lot of people who are not content. There are also a lot of people who do not have the basic necessities of life. I now see that it is not an absolute statement. For the most part, we are created with what we need: the ability to love, a mind for understanding, a means to communicate, and a body that enables us to enjoy the pleasures of the world. We have all we need if we would only see it that way. Satisfaction comes from seeing all that you have.