Each time you declare that something is wrong—shouldn’t be—you fracture your alignment with what is.

Each time you reach outward, waiting for good news to lift you or bad news to define you, you abandon your post.

To say that someone or something has disturbed your peace is to forget: peace was never theirs to protect.

Center is not fragile. It is not conditional. It is not something granted by circumstance. It is your original position, your still point, your true north.

Remain there.

Let the world rise and fall, let emotions surge and settle. Let the outside be outside. You stay in.

From this place, you see cleanly. You choose wisely. You move without being moved.

This is your power: not in controlling the tides, but in remembering you are not the sea.