Peace Begins With Attention

There is a moment like this for everyone, surrounded by noise, movement, voices,

life rushing forward, and yet nothing is felt. So much sound outside and something inside

completely muted. Then the noise stops and the first thing ever noticed is not peace.

It is the body. Breathes slow, shoulder softens. This reveals something important.

Exhaustion does not come from life being difficult. It comes from life being loud.

People say they feel lost, but this is not being lost. This is being everywhere

except with oneself, so the search begins. Places are changed, calm is chased, silence is borrowed,

and for a moment, it works. But peace does not stay where it is borrowed,