The Art of Staying

True balance isn’t about never falling.
It’s about the quiet art of staying,
even when the ground beneath you shifts,
even when the weight presses deep into your bones.

See how the great stone waits,
neither resisting nor surrendering,
only trusting the place where it rests,
as if wind and years have whispered,
“You belong here.”

Isn’t that what we must learn?
That steadiness is not stillness,
that to remain whole is not to be unshaken,
but to know, even in trembling,
that you will not break.

Hold fast.
Let the world do as it will.
You were made to bear the weight of your own becoming.