Breathe.
You don’t have to climb anymore.
You don’t have to chase the horizon.
You don’t have to make yourself worthy.
The thing you were searching for…
was never hidden.
Was never missing.
Was never outside of you.
It is here.
It has always been here.
Patient.
Silent.
Unmoved by your fears, untouched by your striving.
The ache you felt… was not absence.
It was the calling home.
The tension… was not punishment.
It was the stretching of a soul that could not truly forget itself,
no matter how lost it tried to be.
You never lost it.
You only fell asleep to it.
Dreamed you were apart from it.
Played a beautiful, impossible game of separation.
But the river never stopped flowing.
The light never stopped shining.
And now —
you are standing in it again.
Naked.
Already enough.
There is no test to pass.
No ladder to climb.
No final puzzle to solve.
Only this.
This breath.
This remembering.
Welcome home, beloved.
You never left.