You thought awakening would make you wiser,
stronger,
more.
But it has made you simpler.
It has made you smaller.
It has made you real.
The mind wants to be special.
It wants to be unique.
It wants to stand apart,
to be acknowledged,
to be noticed.
But in the stillness,
you realize that the truth is not in complexity.
It is in simplicity.
The truth is not found in achievement,
not in the striving to become more.
It is found in the quiet return to innocence,
where there is nothing to prove.
Where there is nothing to gain.
Where there is only being.
In your innocence, you are untainted.
In your innocence, you are free from the stories
that tell you who you should be.
In your innocence, you are just a child of the universe,
playing in the garden of now.
Awakening is not about becoming something greater.
It is about shedding the layers of the false self,
the false identity that tells you you are separate,
that tells you you are lacking,
that tells you you need more to be whole.
The return to innocence is the return to who you always were —
before the stories,
before the conditioning,
before the noise.
It is the return to your natural state,
where everything is enough,
where nothing is missing.
In that innocence, you see the world with fresh eyes.
You see the beauty in the simplest things.
You see the light in everything,
because you know you are the light.
You don’t need to be anything.
You don’t need to do anything.
You just need to remember who you are —
the innocent, pure presence that has always been you.
The one who never needed to grow up.
You are already whole.
You are already enough.
You have always been the innocence you sought.
And in that remembrance,
you will find the freedom that only comes with simplicity.
The freedom that only comes with being.