Most suffering doesn’t come from what’s happening, it comes from what we think is happening. Awareness breaks that cycle. When you see that your pain comes from thought, not circumstance, you stop feeding the story and start finding peace beneath it.

The self-improvement world says peace comes from fixing yourself. But perfection isn’t peace. It’s control. You can’t fix what was never broken. Real growth starts when you stop treating yourself like a project and remember you’re already whole.