When Seeking Softens

When Seeking Softens

Listening doesn’t rush.

I used to think seeking meant movement—

forward, upward, outward.

Another insight.

Another layer named.

But seeking was never curiosity.

It was urgency wearing wisdom’s clothes.

It asked questions

my body hadn’t finished answering.

Listening arrived quietly.

Not as understanding,

but as permission to stay.

Stay with the breath

before it steadies.

Stay with the ache

before it explains itself.

Stay without fixing the feeling

into something useful.

Listening doesn’t rush toward meaning.

It waits for meaning to become safe.

When I stopped seeking answers,

I started hearing signals.

Subtle ones.

Honest ones.

The body doesn’t speak in conclusions.

It speaks in sensations

that want time.

Seeking wanted relief.

Listening offered relationship.

And relationship—

with breath,

with sensation,

with self—

turned out to be the clarity I was chasing.

Flower InBloom

Author’s Note:

This piece followed “Now.” Together, they explore what shifts when we stop searching for answers and start listening to what’s already present—especially in the body.