in the stillness

There comes a moment, quiet, almost invisible, when you stop trying to be understood, and something within you shifts. Not because you no longer care but because you finally realize you were never meant to explain your soul to people who cannot hear its frequency. You start focusing on yourself, not in arrogance, but in liberation. You grow silent not in defeat but in power. And then, strangely enough, everything begins to fall into place. You must stay for this entire journey because by the end of it you will understand why silence and self-focus are not passive states but the most active transformative forces you have been overlooking. Self-focus is not selfishness but self-alignment.

- Alan Watts, British and American writer and speaker, known for interpreting Buddhist, Hindu, and Taoist philosophy