the quiet panic of realizing the thing you were chasing was the peace you had to abandon to look for it

The Peace You Left Behind

The house is so quiet it feels like the walls are holding their breath. You ran so far to find peace that you left the only place it could live: inside your own chest.

The search itself became the noise you were trying to escape. But right now, in this deepest dark, the running has finally stopped.

You have nowhere left to go. And in that stillness, you realize the treasure was not at the finish line.

It was the ground you were running on. The light does not need you to arrive.

It only needs you to stop. The peace you abandoned to look for it is waiting right where you collapsed.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, Luke

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