✦ On stillness: 007

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You were taught that silence was absence - the nothing between the productive things, the gap you were supposed to fill. So you filled it. With noise, with plans, with the performance of a woman who always had somewhere to be.

Stillness isn’t emptiness. It’s where you go to remember what you actually think.

The answers you’ve been chasing through every book, every coach, every relentless optimizing - they were never out there. They were here, waiting in the quiet you kept escaping. You don’t need more information. You need less interruption.