*Thich Nhat Hanh Collection*

“Be still and know.”

Four words that feel like someone finally hit
the dimmer switch on your brain.

Stillness isn’t silence—
it’s the moment where the noise drops low enough
for the truth to finally have a voice.

And that truth is rarely loud.
It doesn’t shove.
It doesn’t demand.
It waits for you to stop running from room to room
inside your own head.

When you stop moving for a second—
everything you’ve been avoiding,
everything you’ve been craving,
everything you’ve been pretending not to feel—
it rises, gentle and certain.

Be still…
not because the world slows down,
but because you deserve a place inside yourself
that isn’t on fire.

And know…
that you’re held,
that you’ve survived every moment that tried to break you,
that the quiet inside you is still yours
no matter how loud life gets.

Stillness is not the absence of life—
it’s the doorway back to yourself.